Danielle Orchard: Head of a Woman

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Painter Danielle Orchard explored collaborative printmaking during an extended residency at Tamarind Institute in 2019. Her work advances the forms of twentieth-century modernism with the mood of twenty-first-century narratives. She purposefully complicates the figures of Picasso, Matisse, Bonnard, and Vuillard with her own autobiography and a decidedly contemporary perspective. Orchard maintains a consistent interest in the figure and what she recognizes as the “anxiety around intimacy” by pulling from moments in art history when the human figure has been used to indicate an “otherwise hidden psychological position.” Her figures occupy the space fully, as monumental forms, with evidence of a pensive mood or defiant attitude reflected in the symbolic devices of cigarettes, wine glasses, and sympathetic tulips that Orchard utilizes to suggest an emotive state. Her complex imagery locates a place in the middle, where art history turns back upon itself to reflect our contemporary cultural moment.

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Image: Danielle Orchard, Smile More

My interest and pleasure in abstracting, cutting up, rearranging, flattening and cubistically arranging heads of women coincides very much with Picasso’s. But one major difference is that each time I approach the subject, I’m bringing some degree of autobiography to it. And so my work hovers somewhere in the ambiguous space between self-effacement and rebirth.

-Danielle Orchard

Danielle Orchard

Smile More, 2019 

Two-color lithograph

Paper size: 42 1/4 x 30 1/8 inches

Paper type: soft white Somerset velvet

Collaborating Printer: Christine Adams 

Edition of 10

$2,500

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Danielle Orchard

Third Hand, 2019

Two-color lithograph

Paper size: 16 x 22 inches

Paper type: soft white Somerset satin

Collaborating Printer: Valpuri Remling

Edition of 20

$800

Danielle Orchard

Stone Head, 2019 

Two-color lithograph

Paper size: 22 1/2 x 16 inches

Paper type: soft white Somerset satin

Collaborating Printer: Christine Adams

Edition of 10

$800

Danielle Orchard

Still Life with Lemons, 2019

Five-color lithograph

Paper size: 18 x 18 inches

Paper type: grey Rives BFK

Collaborating Printer: Jake Ingram

Edition of 10

$800

Danielle Orchard

Picnic Scene, 2019

Two-color lithograph

Paper size: 16 1/8 x 22 inches

Paper type: soft white Somerset satin

Collaborating Printer: Jake Ingram

Edition of 20

$800

Danielle Orchard

Blue Bather, 2019

Four-color lithograph

Paper size: 34 x 45 inches

Paper Type: white Arches Cover

Collaborating Printer: Valpuri Remling

Edition of 10

$2,500

Danielle Orchard 

Kippis, 2019

Single-color lithograph

Paper size: 38 1/4 x 25 1/2 inches,

Paper type: bisque Revere suede,

Collaborating Printer: Valpuri Remling

Edition of 10

$1,800

Danielle Orchard

Utility, 2019

Single-color lithograph

Paper size: 38 x 24 1/2 inches

Paper type: bisque Revere suede

Collaborating Printer: Jake Ingram

Edition of 10

$1,800

Danielle Orchard

Tennis II, 2019

Monoprint

Paper size: 23 x 31 7/8

Paper type: Bisque Revere suede

$1,800

Danielle Orchard

Tennis III, 2019

Monoprint

Paper size: 32 7/8 x 22 1/2 inches

Paper type: soft white Revere suede

$1,800

Danielle Orchard

Painter Danielle Orchard advances the forms of twentieth-century modernism and the mood of twenty-first-century narratives. She holds an MFA from Hunter College and is represented by Jack Hanley Gallery in New York City. Recent exhibitions include ""Pack Den Badeanzug Ein"" at Galerie Kornfeld, ""A Little Louder, Love"" at Jack Hanley Gallery, ""Embodiment"" at D.C. Moore Gallery, and ""Fauve"" at Geoffrey Young Gallery.

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