The Gallery is pleased to present Chrysopoeia, a solo exhibition by New York-based artist Dannielle Tegeder.
Tegeder’s new body of work includes paintings and mobiles that draw from an architectural language of blueprints and mechanical drawings. A parallel interest in cosmological systems, understood through occult methods for accessing the divine, also informs the work. Tegeder’s paintings reflect her systems-thinking through conceptual and material experimentation. The paintings incorporate the familiar aesthetic of board games and invoke the rules of delimited spaces that make collective world-building.Tegeder reduces and expands her visual language in a new series of mobiles; taking symbols off the canvas and exploring interactions between space and structure. These suspended works introduce contingent symbols hung in a delicate balance, freeing pictorial elements to respond to architecture and atmosphere.
The mobiles also reference histories absent from conventional modernist narratives: from vernacular folk objects, like witch ladders—magic objects meant to catch negative energy—to the woman of the Bauhaus who turned to mobiles and toys to experiment with formalism while stimulating play, learning, and utopian imaginaries.
To coincide with Chrysopoeia, the Gallery is hosting an evening with Dannielle Tegeder and Director of the National Gallery of Ireland, Caroline Campbell: In Conversation on Tuesday 9th July at 6pm.
Dannielle Tegeder, Born in Peekskill, NY, currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. She received a BFA from the State University of New York at Purchase, and an MFA in Painting and Drawing from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago.Tegeder has been presented both nationally and internationally in Paris, Houston, Los Angeles, Berlin, Chicago, and New York. She has participated in numerous institution exhibitions including PS1/MOMA, The New Museum, The Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, and Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Several of her drawings are included in the Contemporary Drawing Collection at the Museum of Modern Art, as well as the permanent collections of The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and The Weatherspoon Museum of Art in Greensboro, NC.
She has been a visiting artist in over forty institutions including Wassaic Project, Rutgers University, Chautauqua School of Art, Parsons School of Art, Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art, Rhode Island School of Design, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Ontario School of Art and Design, CCA in San Francisco, Brandeis University, Princeton University, Rice University, University of Houston, and others. She is a Professor of Art with tenure at the City University of New York at Lehman College, and has held full time university positions at Cornell University, and SUNY Purchase.
In 2020, following her interests on feminism and spirituality, and in collaboration with artist Sharmistha Ray, she co-founded Hilma’s Ghost, a feminist collective that fuses art and magic, a project that has resulted in many exhibitions, publications and education projects.