Danielle McCullough

ARTIST STATEMENT

I have a simultaneous repulsion and attraction to the points of interaction between calculated rigidities and natural fluids: hips bubbling out the tops of stiff blue jeans; the drooling jowls of a coyote as he stands in a midtown concrete driveway. Cheeks pill up like a tatty sweater, with graphite-colored lint balls composed of metallic street dust and engine oil spills from my pores. I pinch then roll these off with a sense of gross satisfaction. The city's organism acts on my body even at the molecular level, and is measured in particles of corrosive air as it mingles with skin. This is the crowding of a chaotic body into a confinement too small for what must unfurl. It is the battle of nature and systems of engineering. Organs mingle with synthetic fibers, graph paper patterns transform into hair, and discarded socks are shed like molted skin. Paint is alternately scrunched with fists, poured and knifed, then threaded with delicate line work. It is a process of construction then rupture, initiating a conversation between these transient bodies and the rationalized environments that they live in.

BIO

b. 1978, Voorhees, NJ.

EDUCATION

MFA 2005 Painting, School of Art, Ohio University

BA 2002 Studio Art, Photo Emphasis, Department of Art, University of Northern Iowa

EXHIBITIONS (Selected)

2009 Urban Plein Air Society of Los Angles, Group Exhibition, Telic, Los Angeles, CA

2009 Plank Tone Robots, Group exhibition, Fluxco, Los Angeles, CA

2009 Haunted House Show, Group exhibition, Colin Roberts Studio/ Groupshowhappening,

Los Angeles, CA

2009 No Right Beast, Group exhibition, Women's Building, Los Angeles, CA

2009 Gallery Equality, Group Auction/Art Walk to benefit marriage and family equality,

sponsored by Create Equality, Smog Shoppe, Culver City

2009 Body As A City, Three person exhibition with Cheri Charlton and Adriane Schramm,

Curated by Genevieve Waller, SUNY Brockport, Brockport, NY

2008 DEPOSITS, Solo Exhibition, Texan Equities, Los Angeles, CA

2008 Group Show Without Andre Butzer, Group exhibition,1727 N. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA

2008 Group Show With Andre Butzer, Group exhibition, 1727 N. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA

2008 A Tribute, Group exhibition, Studio Collective, Brooklyn, NY

2006 Engendered Species, National Juried Exhbition, California State Long Beach and the

Advocate & Gochis Galleries, Los Angels, CA

2005 New Directions, National Juried Exhibition, Juried by Steve Evans, Assistant Director

of Dia Art Foundation, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie NY

2005 Love Luv BANG bang, Masters Thesis Exhibition, Majestic Galleries, Nelsonville, OH