Daniel Anselmi: Paper, Scissors, Paint
August 14-September 10
Artist's Reception Saturday, August 19th 4-6 pm
My works on paper and canvas explore the use of paper as an ongoing dialogue between painting and collage. I use painted paper as one would handle a brush to elicit brushstrokes on canvas. Never using the new, I enjoy the felt quality of the discarded: blueprints, old ledgers, chart papers, and used canvas drop cloths are materials that offer an aesthetic conversation with my work. The paint I apply to these various materials, whether in large cut pieces or intimate fragments, and affix to already created surfaces, offers countless opportunities to express color, line, and form. Though sourced materials are not intended to be recognizable in these abstractions, sometimes surface traces remain that become a moment of discovery for the discriminating viewer.
Daniel Anselmi was a Monhegan Artists Residency Fellow in 2013. He has shown in juried exhibitions including the University of Maine Triennial, University of New England, Portland Public Library, Cambridge Art Association’s Northeast Prize Show, and CMCA. His work has also been in 5 solo exhibitions and included in 24 group exhibitions.
“Abstraction is not short on appeal. Daniel Anselmi’s, Sandra Quinn’s and Ingrid Ellison’s elegantly finished square paintings all shift in real time with the mesmerizing grace of dancers.” Daniel Kany, art historian read review
Untitled (11-22) Artist painted paper Collage on panel 30x30 2016
"The Wall Series" 2016 wood sculpture (pair)
12 x 5 x 4 $900
MONHEGAN SERIES Works are Monotype/Collage This body of work is based on the colors that I repeatedly came upon during my five week residency on Monhegan. Within these colors came variations of each depending on the weather, time of day, and objects that possessed them. My process was to produce a run of Monotypes using these colors, and at the same time transfer the color to found paper, in this case it was old ledger paper. Over the several weeks I created a group of three sets which I called Rust, Lichen, and Fog. Rust based on the various shades of the rusting hulk on Lobster Cove. Lichen from the acid yellow of the lichen found on the rock around the Island, and Fog from the weather elements encountered throughout the stay, The Collage elements are my interpretations of the shapes and forms from the island. The angles of the land, the numerous shapes of rocks, the weather on plants land and structures. Seeing what each color did to compliment the natural and man made features. 
"Untitled" collage on canvas 40 x 30 $3,000 sold
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"January Series #1" collage on canvas 18x24 $1,800
Monhegan series monotype/collage 2013 8x6 inches $600 each
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