A little about
Danielle
Danielle was born in Washington D.C., in 1967.
She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, then moved to New York City. She always considered herself first and foremost a painter, but once in New York she found herself making a living as a jeweler. For years she was a successful metalsmith who “painted” whimsical figurative works with a handsaw, hammer and blowtorch.
After having two children, and wanting to get away from the dangerous materials involved in metal work, she discovered and began working exclusively in felt. No more gas tanks, dirty goggles, dangerous chemicals or leaky sand blasters - now her tools are a pair of scissors, a needle, thread, and, most importantly, a thimble.
Since college Danielle has lived in Tribeca, Soho, the Financial District, Brooklyn, and Florence, Italy.
With her felt work she has exhibited at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, ACC shows, SOFA in New York and Chicago, and the Chelsea/Origins show in London. Her work is in galleries throughout the U.S., such as Julie Artisans’ Gallery in New York, Snyderman Gallery in Philadelphia, and The Textile Museum in Washington D.C., as well as galleries in Europe.
Danielle collects shopping lists.
She scavenges them from shopping carts, the floor, trash cans, and receives occasional generous donations from friends and acquaintances. She has hundreds, both from the U.S. and from Italy, stashed away mostly in the form of a crumpled mess squeezed into an overflowing box.
and also...
The untrained eye that comes upon this collection might be understandably perplexed. But having studied the minute sociological clues that are inherent in this most common form of note writing, Danielle can distill a very precise picture of the state of the human condition in this world in this era. Or, at the very least, some observations can be made. For example, there are several classifiable categories of list styles:
the every item is underlined list
the dash before every item list
the purchased items vigorously crossed out list
the numbered item list
the list one item below the other, and the list that goes across the page (much less common but more common than one might think)
the generic item list and the specific brand name list
the overly detailed list written for the clueless husband or teenager
the quantity of every item specified, even if it is always 1
the combination shopping/things to do list
the list written all at once and the list written over a long period of time
the specified who things are for list (2 apples for me, yogurt for Tom etc.),
and, the most rare of lists, of which danielle does have at least a couple, the every possible item you might want typed out and listed across the page, photocopied, and then items are circled as needed list.
Danielle also collects a typical Italian countryside phenomenon: signs indicating the way to a wedding party. You find them taped to street signs and posts, and usually have the couple’s name, the date, an arrow pointing you in the right direction, and most notably a consistently horrific clip-art computer printout graphic with a wedding theme. Sometimes there is even an unfortunate photograph of the fortunate couple. These she collects not for their beauty (as is the case with the lists), but for their remarkable tackyness.
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