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Early Work
was sink or drift
oil on panel
oil on panel
oil on panel
painting
August 13, 2012
Painting the Fourth Wall: Pull at G. Gibson Gallery
“Portland artist Laurie Danial’s pull comes from the blocky, outlined forms that appear in flux between being stacked and crumbled, like the bricks of a building in varying states of existence and destruction.”
Laurie Danial is profiled in the January/February 2012 issue of art ltd
“I know that eventually something will coalesce,” Danial explains. “When it finally comes together, I call it ‘cracking the code’… there are often lots of loose ends remaining, which is okay with me.”
November 18, 2011
Two Coats of Paint
A Quick Study, Sharon L. Butler
“I have come to willingly entertain a level of anxiety and exhilaration that comes from not knowing.” YES!
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November 15, 2011
Laurie Danial Interview with Eva Lake on Art Focus
Art Focus, KBOO Community Radio
Interview: Laurie Danial with Eva Lake
November 15, 2011
Listen here: [audio: http://www.lauriedanial.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/AF11-15-11.mp3|titles=Eva Lake Interviews Laurie Danial]
November 14, 2011
November 9, 2011
Laurie Danial’s new show, Control Release Control, reviewed in the Willamette Week.
Three Artists Have A Great Autumn, TJ Norris, Willamette Week, Nov. 9, 2011
“Laurie Danial has been underestimated for years. Her new work, under the moniker Control Release Control, is as stunting as it is stunning. Danial’s style has shifted and tightened since her last solo show over three years ago. Gone are the looser, chaotic drips, replaced by solid forms that have been broken and toyed with.”
November 5, 2011
Laurie Danial, Froelick Gallery
Willamette Week Visual Arts Review
TJ Norris, November 5, 2011
“Danial slowly reveals, extracts, represses and converts patterns like an illusionist who will swallow the key before revealing the invisible threads holding it all together.”
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November 3, 2011
November’s First Thursday unveils a month of art to be thankful for—Bob Hicks—The Oregonian
…the oil paintings and etchings in Laurie Danial’s “Control Release Control” bubble with life and color, smart and happy collisions of structure and chance. As she says in her artist’s statement: “I have come to willingly entertain a level of anxiety and exhilaration that comes from not knowing.”