Laurie Danial: Beauty and the Long Walk Home

Froelick Gallery is pleased to present Laurie Danial’s latest body of work, Beauty and The Long Walk Home. A solo exhibit of recent paintings on panel and paper. Laurie Danial's abstractions are process-driven; her work is intuitive, experimental, and dictated by her day-to-day concerns, visual experiences, and collected ephemera of looking and feeling. This new series of exuberant paintings explores improvisation and unmediated gesture, delving into a realm that Danial considers "Play," a place of intuition that allows for "following the hand rather than a plan."

Laurie Danial writes: "The theme of my current body of work, is a metaphor for my creative process: The search for an image that expresses my aspirations, and the long struggle it often takes to bring that image into being. What I am searching for I call beauty, though not beauty in its traditional sense. The beauty I pursue is in defiance of cliché and perfection. It is subjective, and I have a penchant for finding it in what others might consider commonplace or ugly... The 'long walk home' is the slow process of making and unmaking that ensues. 'Home' is the image I finally arrive at, one that is formally sound and asks for nothing more."

Click the link below to read Laurie Danial's full artist statement