Danielle Orchard

Danielle Orchard's paintings engage in a dialogue with modern masters like Picasso and Matisse, reinterpreting their styles to depict female nudes. Her figures are rendered through a multi-perspectival Analytic Cubist approach or abbreviated into solid contours and saturated colors, built up with thick impasto.

Working "plane by plane," Orchard sculpts each abstract part, delving into the complexities of female corporeal representation. Her practice is informed by her own experiences as a female artist, having trained, posed, and taught in life drawing classes, adding a unique depth to her exploration of the subject.

From art historical tropes to contemporary leisure, Orchard's narratives offer familiar scenes, directing attention to her expressive mode rather than mere subject identification. With backgrounds and objects echoing the muted emotions of her women, she invites viewers to empathize with and contemplate the models' interior lives.