DANIELLE BARON ATKINS
Danielle Baron Artist is a painter working in Brooklyn and Woodstock, NY. Her work examines the female form as well as the many roles of women in our contemporary society. She abstracts, dissects and exaggerates the female form. The women she depicts sit and stand in suggestive poses, often wearing stilettos.
These anonymous figures exude sexuality, fertility and motherhood. She utilizes a juxtaposition of delicate, stereotypically “feminine” colors, and repetitive, aggressive, graffiti-like markings. She repurposes torn vintage comic books found under her children’s beds, cookbooks left for the taking on brownstone steps, discarded fabric (including torn socks and underwear), cardboard packages and junk mail to accentuate her underlying themes. Motherhood has deeply affected her art making process. Danielle’s sharp observations of the roles and struggles of women create an ever-evolving definition of womanhood.
Woman Sitting, 2017, mixed media on canvas, 48x71 in.