Exhibition: Danielle Mailer at Oliver Wolcott Library in Litchfield

October 30 – December 20
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 7 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM

“Somewhere nestled between Miriam Shapiro, and Niki De Saint Phalle, Mailer creates her own interpretation of the patterned silhouette. Once a still-life painter, in the last two decades she has been more interested in stepping outside this tradition and capturing for lack of a better word her “inner reality.” Both her woman and animals embellished with symbols and mixing of visual imagery, have offered up a more personal narrative.

Subtlety sprinkled throughout Danielle’s work, like the mortar in an elaborate mosaic, are her strongest influences: Her Peruvian heritage, the colorful echoes of her Mother’s large abstract expressionistic paintings, and the words of her Father, the late Norman Mailer, who always said, “paint what you know.”

From patterned pups, to dancing cats, to larger than life female silhouettes, she will energetically navigate this eclectic terrain presenting in both the giant and the small, a message of optimism.

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