“ I think of the drawings as a utopian city or a utopian fictional space, and the elements in the drawings act like a legend in some way. And of course, you know, they can’t really be built; they are fictional spaces that intersect with abstraction, modernism, and architecture. It leads me to work directly on the architecture – for instance, my wall drawings – and directly with the constraints of the architecture in the space. Cities, how we think of spaces, and how we move through those cities are metaphors for moving through other aspects of life.”
-Dannielle Tegeder for Painting in Text
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Invisible Diagram, Colored pencil, gouache, on Fabriano Murillo paper, 44 x60 inches, 2021
Crystal Routes, Colored pencil, gouache, on Fabriano Murillo paper, 44 x60 inches, 2021
Chart Moving, Colored pencil, gouache, on Fabriano Murillo paper, 44 x 60 inches, 2021
Lahm, Gouache, ink, colored pencil, graphite, water-based spray paint, pastel on Fabriano Murillo paper, 79 x 55 inches, 2016
Abgal, Gouache, ink, colored pencil, graphite, water-based spray paint, pastel on Fabriano Murillo paper, 79 x 55 inches, 2016
Blind Hierarchies, Johannes Vogt Gallery, New York City, NY, 2016
Clineld (hydraulic machinery), Gouache, ink, colored pencil, graphite, water-based spray paint, and pastel on Fabriano Murillo paper, 79 x 55 inches, 2016
“I reinstalled the paintings once a week. And these were large works on paper. Twice, I did that with the painter Peter Halley, and another with Barry Schwabsky, who’s an important painting critic and poet. There was a level of collaboration in it, but it was also about testing the way we think of paintings, hanging in a still space, in the middle of the wall every time. I do really like to test those kinds of constraints. Can a painting sit on the floor? Can it be turned around? Can it move during an exhibition to different locations?”
-Dannielle Tegeder, interviewed by Barry Mc Hugh for Painting in Text
Tirgonam, ink, colored pencil, graphite, water-based spray paint, and pastel on Fabriano Murillo paper, 79 x 55 inches, 2016
Kehmatel (nuclear fission), Gouache, ink, colored pencil, graphite, water-based spray paint, and pastel on Fabriano Murillo paper, 79 x 55 inches, 2016
Eeg Aagh Oooh, Gouache, ink, colored pencil, graphite and pastel on Fabriano Murillo paper, 27.5 x 39.5 inches, 2016
Clevegan, Pencil, ink, gouache, acrylic on Fabriano, 39 1⁄2 x 55 inches, 2015-2014
A System of Detection for Deeper Understanding, Gouache, ink, colored pencil, graphite and pastel on Fabriano Murillo paper, 27.5 x 39.5 inches, 2016
Dannielle Tegeder’s reconstitutes what painting means as a formal exercise in mark making. The notion of “Drawing” becomes delineated by introducing installation methods that further disrupt media-specific hierarchies: drawing to sculpture to installation to video to sound and back to drawing. Expanding and contracting these constructs, with the idea of drawing as a baseline, emboldens the interconnectedness between line, shape and color. Thus: drawing as sculpture as installation as video as sound.
-Carrie Secrist Gallery Press Release for Turbulent Constellations
Blaiire, Pencil, ink, gouache, acrylic on Fabriano Murillo Paper, 55 x 79 inches, 2015
Zoelfrora, Gouache, ink, colored pencil, graphite and pastel on Fabriano Murillo paper, 55 x 79 inches, 2014
Whether interpreted as mechanical diagrams, maps, blueprints or microbiological imprints, what they all share is the concept of closed and open systems. The closed systems become the individual components (lines, shapes, color), representing a singular designated function.
When these interrelated entities are combined, that function becomes a whole, or an open system, influencing its surroundings and forming a function within the environment in which they live. It is within this open system that the personal iconography of Tegeder’s transfiguration is revealed.
Doconia Thermal Atomic Rate at Red Midnight, Gouache, ink, colored pencil, graphite, pastel on Fabriano Murillo paper, 55 x 79 inches, 2009
Puriamond: Cascade System of Destruction & Explosions, Ink, colored pencil, graphite, pastel, and gouache on Fabriano Murillo paper, 55 x 79 inches, 2007
Instructions for Utopian Grey World Machine & Copper Inner Structure, Ink, dye, pencil, marker, acrylic, and gouache on Fabriano Murillo Paper, 2007
Linear Momentum and Collisions, Dannielle Tegeder, Gouache, ink, colored pencil, graphite and pastel on Fabriano Murillo paper, 55 x 79 inches, 2016
Orackium: Electric Constructing with Global Silver Fragments, Gouache,ink, colored pencil, graphite, and pastel on Fabriano Murillo paper, 55 x 78 inches, 2008
Monument to the Geo Chemistry After Structure with Yellow DISTURBANCE Code and Disaster Averter and Atomic Station, Gouache,ink, colored pencil, graphite, and pastel on Fabriano Murillo paper, 79 x 110 inches, 2009
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Nocturnal System Drawing and Atomic Nightlight, Gouache, ink, colored pencil, graphite,pastel on Fabriano Murillo paper, 55 x 79 inches, 2011
Urban Metropolis Headquarter System with Crimson Unit Transmitters and Silver Expulsion Area, Gouache, ink, colored pencil, graphite, and pastel on Fabriano Murillo paper, 72 x 108 inches, 2012.
Chouenine: Chocolate Constructivist Layered City with Ochre Exhaust System and Garden Escape Routing with Circle Habitats and Magnetic Results, Gouache, ink, colored pencil, graphite, and pastel on Fabriano Murillo paper, 55 x 79 inches, 2020