Anne-Marie Delaunay-Danizio
“Within the last few months, I have diversified my creative practice. With my acrylic on canvas works, I paint, sculpt, and draw until images evocative of body parts, internal organs, landscapes and architectural fragments, emerge.
The ongoing series of “Covid dolls” created by weaving threads and twine around a shepherd hook, bring to life strange creatures, all carrying a house and with that house, the weight of domesticity. These entities are neither male nor female or human nor animal nor animal or vegetable.
The most recent assemblages of kitchen utensils are more disquieting. They are metal mixed with ribbons and threads, in a way that conveys the “angst of domesticity.”
While painting has been internalized as masculine, and as such my being a painter is a re-appropriation of the male dominated expressionist movement, my textile and assemblage works become a repurposing of female craft.
Through my diverse use of media, I blur boundaries between genders, between human/animal/vegetal, body and landscape, between seduction and repulsion, beauty and ugliness, wound and desire.
My art is a dance of trauma and celebration. I am never alone in an artistic practice that connects me to the fluid and big tribe of those I call ‘creative survivors and thrivers.”
Anne-Marie Delaunay-Danizio is a local artist and a member of Art Links Arlington. She was born and grew up in Paris, France. She earned a Bachelor degree in English from Emmanuel College in 1989. In 1993 she obtained a Masters degree in Art History from the Department of Continuing Education at Harvard University. She returned to Harvard University Extension School and obtained a second Masters degree in Museum Studies in 2015. As a self-taught artist, Ms. Delaunay-Danizio enrolled in a MFA program at NHIA, now The Institute of Art and Design at NEC, in January of 2018. Her process during the two-year program led her to return to her initial love of painting. In her 2020 MFA thesis titled Eve’s Clitoris, she identifies as an abstract expressionist painter with a queer/feminist twist, although her work keeps evolving towards smaller, intimate abstract paintings and textile sculptures. She lives in Waltham with her two adult children and her husband. She is currently a participant in the virtual exhibition “Represent” organized by New York based physical, online gallery and artist social network, See|Me.
