I have known Danielle Lawrence for over ten years and in that time I have been consistently amazed by her tenacity in deconstructing the known order of the world, both ideologically and artistically. Danielle's most recent body of work reveals the processes of making and unmaking, driving physical objects from a system of order to the edge of a system of maximal disorder. In drawing on ties between form and formlessness, chaos and transformation, the logic behind painting is powerfully deconstructed. The investigation of degenerating materials, creation failures, and disruptions of form conjure the utopian and dystopian imaginary landscape. Deliberate distortions in spacial planes seem to project from an inward psychic break, where physical disintegration points to the horror of entropy which assumes an eschatological and even apocalyptic value within popular culture. Nevertheless, within this dystopian perspective there is a free spirited emancipation from accepted understandings of the purpose and formal nature of art that draws the viewer happily toward her deceptively simple constructions.
-Eliza Swann DiPietro