Anne-Marie Delaunay-Danizio, Indigo Flow 1
Anne-Marie Delaunay-Danizio
Indigo Flow 1
Acrylic paint and silver ink gel on canvas
50" x 40"
Website: anne-mariedelaunay-danizio.com
Instagram: @ampmdd
About | As a self-taught artist, Anne-Marie Delaunay-Danizio enrolled in a MFA program at NHIA, now The Institute of Art and Design at NEC, in January 2018 and graduated in Visual Art in January 2020. She lives in Waltham, MA, with her husband, two adult children, and their cat. Her artworks have been on display in Arlington, Cambridge, Boston, and Lowell, MA; Manchester and Hooksett, NH; New York City, NY; and Luxembourg. Her artist practice is now part of the large art community of the Western Avenue Studios and Lofts in Lowell, MA.
Delaunay-Danizio’s process during the two-year program led her to return to her initial love of painting. In her 2020 MFA thesis, she identifies as an abstract expressionist painter who challenges the concept of artistic drive as exclusively male, predominant in the 1970s in France. During Covid, she expanded her medium to textile and soft sculptures.
Indigo Flow 1 is part of a project that began with a series of silver, ink gel pen drawings on indigo, pastel paper. Delaunay-Danizio’s intention was to cover the canvases with a flat and even indigo background to draw on. The paint pushed her in another direction — while keeping the indigo color and the silver ink gel pen, the process became a response to the intensity of her recent travel to New Zealand.
Delaunay-Danizio thought of the destruction and eruption of islands, the planting of Redwood tree seedlings from California, the invasion of imported animals at the expense of the native fauna, and the erasure and reemergence of Maori cultures.
Precariousness and upheaval through natural phenomenon and human intervention translated on the canvas by erasing, recreating, and drawing around shapes evocative of land, plants, animals, and fossils, some emerging and others hidden under the surface.
$4,200