Artist Statement

Danielle Baron Atkins is a painter working in Brooklyn and Woodstock, NY.  Her work examines the female form as well as the many roles of women in our contemporary society.  She abstracts, dissects, and exaggerates the female form.

The women she depicts sit and stand in suggestive poses, often wearing stilettos. These anonymous figures exude sexuality, fertility, and motherhood.  She utilizes a juxtaposition of delicate, stereotypically “feminine” colors with repetitive, aggressive, graffiti-like markings. Danielle repurposes remnants of her children’s discarded belongings such as broken headphones (used during school lock downs), worn out crocks and skateboarding sneakers, underwear bands that have lost their elasticity, socks and mittens that have abandoned their partner, candy wrappers, torn vintage comic books found under her children’s beds, old cookbooks, pill bottle tops, cardboard packages, and junk mail to accentuate her underlying themes.

 Motherhood has deeply affected her art making process.  Danielle’s sharp observations of the roles and struggles of women create an ever-evolving definition of womanhood.