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.”
“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.”
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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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]
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.”
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’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.”
The title of Laurie Danial’s newest exhibit, Control Release Control, is an idea that the artist says stays with her through almost any work that she does. “As I work through the painting,” she says, “this issue around trying to control where the painting’s going, trying to get it to work compositionally, trying to get it to be somewhat of an arresting image. So, there’s all these control issues. There’s definitely certain points in the process where I let go, and that just seems to be the thing to make it all come together.”
Laurie Danial – Froelick Gallery
Pictures of the Day
March 2 to 27, 2010
Artist’s Reception, Wednesday March 3, 5-8pm
Presentation by Marth Bergman-Gamblin:
The Artists’ Intent: Painting Techniques and Material Manipulation
Saturday, March 13, 11am
Froelick Gallery
714 NW Davis Street
Portland, Oregon 97209
503 222 1142
www.froelickgallery.com
Tuesday to Saturday 10:30 to 5:30pm
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