Patterns of Nature Exhibition - Featuring artist Helen Dannelly
Patterns Of Nature Exhibition
4th floor gallery
September 21st - November 2nd, 2018
Featuring artist Helen Dannelly
I am interested in metamorphosis as a natural phenomenon as well as a personal phenomenon. In my work, I address the spectrum of vulnerability – from closed, hardened, defensive exteriors to open, soft, colorful interiors. My work is inspired by the natural world: plant life, sea life, pods, seeds, cocoons, leaves, coral, sea anemones, cellular structure, bone, earth, landscape, color, and the interplay of light and shadow. My pieces are nature-referential rather than replication. The three dimensional work resembles objects in nature, but they are unique abstractions.
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Helen Dannelly is a Chicago-based artist who studied painting and printmaking at San Francisco State University and sculpture at the University of Minnesota. For the past several years, Dannelly has been working both two and three dimensionally in encaustic, which is beeswax mixed with damar resin. An award-winning sculptor, her work is in private and public collections throughout the country. She has shown at Slate Contemporary in Oakland, California, Adam Peck Gallery in Provincetown, MA, Conrad Wilde Gallery in Tucson, Arizona, and Kolman and Pryor Gallery in Minneapolis, MN. She will exhibit a two person piece with California artist Sandi Miot called The Coral Project in February, 2019 at Christopher Art Gallery at Prairie State College in Chicago Heights. It will be a visual representation of the plight of dying corals due to climate change and increased water temperatures.