Shown at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art, New York, NY, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco CA, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN.

Library of Abstract Sound

In an intimate chamber lined with wood shelves sit one hundred drawings. Executed on muted backgrounds and comprising overlapping geometric forms and intersecting lines, they evoke nothing so much as a cross between El Lissitzky and Kazimir Malevich’s spare, hard-edged compositions, and Wassily Kandinsky’s lyrical arrangements of color and form. Indeed, a cursory viewing might suggest that the artist, Dannielle Tegeder, was constructing a monument to Russian abstraction. This initial impression is supported by an accompaniment of atonal music—to be exact, one hundred separate compositions equaling approximately one-and-a-half hours of sound. Each formal composition was translated into a unique sound- and-image animation, ranging in duration from thirty to one- hundred-and-twenty seconds. A computer monitor inside the room displays the drawings one at a time so that the viewer can follow the musical arrangements as they unfold.

-Claire Gilman, Curator of The Drawing Center in New York City. 

View drawings with sound pieces here

Read more about the Library in an interview with Xandra Eden, Curator of Exhibitions at the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Library Press:  Gregory Lind Gallery, SF Art Enthusiast, Painter's Table