Bio

Danielle Klebes lives and works at Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY. Danielle has exhibited in notable galleries and museums throughout the United States, Europe, and Canada. These include Keeping Company (2023), a solo show at NARS Foundation in Brooklyn, NY, Midnight Adventure Club (2022), a solo show at AVA Gallery in Lebanon, NH, House Fire House Party (2020), a solo show at Installation Space in North Adams, MA, Aimless Pilgrimage (2020), a solo show at L'Atelier Silex Gallery in Trois- Rivières, Quebec, Canada, Fifty (2022), a group show at MoCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, Summer (2022), a group show at Galleri Christoffer Egelund in Copenhagen, Denmark, Portraiture Today (2021), a group show at the Springfield Museums, Springfield, MA, and Confluence of Tongues (2021), a group show at Grove Collective in London, UK. Danielle’s work has appeared on the cover of many publications including Cream City Review, Artscope Magazine, Studio Visit Magazine, Gertrude Press, and Prairie Schooner. Danielle received her MFA in Visual Arts from Lesley University College of Art and Design in Cambridge, MA, in 2017.

Statement

Around the beginning of Covid, I rented a furnished apartment for a few months from a Hemingway-type-artist-man. It had taxidermy of a big horned sheep and a boar mounted on the walls. There was a liquor cabinet that slid to reveal a secret room with stained glass and a big bed. I felt an inexplicable sense of ownership and pride for that apartment. There was something so funny to me about a queer female and her queer friends existing in that space. In my current body of work, I present a variety of intimate interior scenes that were inspired by that apartment. The figures are comfortable enough to be vulnerable–they are lost in thought, often naked, surrounded by objects and community in den-like environments.

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