Daniel Anselmi
Monhegan Series
August 22-September 18
Reception Saturday, September 3, 4-6 pm
MONHEGAN SERIES
In 2013, I was awarded the Monhegan Island Artist Residency, a prestigious 5-week fellowship granted to two artists annually.
During my time on the island, I created a body of work based on the colors that I repeatedly encountered daily. Within these colors came variations of each depending on the weather, time of day, and objects that possessed them.
Over the several weeks of my residency, I created 3 sets of collages named 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, i.e., angles of the land, shapes of rocks, and weather effects on plants, land, and structures.
(Works are Monotype/Collage)
In 2013, I was awarded the Monhegan Island Artist Residency, a prestigious 5-week fellowship granted to two artists annually.
During my time on the island, I created a body of work based on the colors that I repeatedly encountered daily. Within these colors came variations of each depending on the weather, time of day, and objects that possessed them.
Over the several weeks of my residency, I created 3 sets of collages named 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, i.e., angles of the land, shapes of rocks, and weather effects on plants, land, and structures.
(Works are Monotype/Collage)
Untitled (10-13) oil on paper collage on canvas 40" x 30" $5,000
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Untitled Monotype/Collage 22" x 14" image, 28.5" x 21.5" frame $2,200
Untitled Monotype/Collage 22" x 14" image, 28.5" x 21.5" frame $2,200 sold
Daniel Anselmi is featured with his partner
and gallery artist Marc Leavitt in the October
edition of The Maine Magazine
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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.
Anselmi’s forms are elegant, but he insistently denies their ability to distill into recognizable figures. Instead, they dance among system aspects like composition, circuitry and rhythm, and they teasingly flicker between positive and negative space.
Contact the gallery about commissions.
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.
Anselmi’s forms are elegant, but he insistently denies their ability to distill into recognizable figures. Instead, they dance among system aspects like composition, circuitry and rhythm, and they teasingly flicker between positive and negative space.
Contact the gallery about commissions.
STUDIO TOUR: PAINTER + MIXED MEDIA ARTIST DANIEL ANSELMI by Erin Little