Spanierman Modern is pleased to announce the opening on March 29, 2007 of Jasmina Danowski: Surf On By, an exhibition of oils and works on paper in which color and mark form a field of connections and interactions, spontaneous rhythms, and luminous emanations.

As in the art of Joan Mitchell, Danowksi’s works carry reminiscences of nature or still life, but their power is associative rather than literal, evoking sensations of being in, aroused by, or moving through flowers or landscapes. The airiness and liquidity of the forms imply a feeling of buoyant passage through time and space. Danowski’s art is also about longing to see color, as she uses process in the expression of her search for color in her surroundings, resulting in “occasional bends” in her perception “between everyday objects and paintings, with one melding into the other in fleeting thoughts.”

In many of Danowski’s recent works, floral motifs are the protaganoists and main carriers of color, the visual language positioning them between recognizability and free-form shapes, yet their themes are broader, addressing eroticism, mortality, the grotesque, transformations, devotion, and desire. Their surfaces brimming, but contained, receptive yet self-possessed, the works in this exhibition create places to be in rather than stand passively aside.

The artist was born in Stuttgart, Germany and received her B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute (1990), and her M.F.A. from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (1997). She received two Pollock-Krasner awards (2001 and 2005), and has shown her work at Simon’s Rock College, Great Barrington, Massachusetts (solo exhibition, 1997), and at Boston Center for the Arts (2000), Massachusetts College of Art, Boston (2002), Dumbo Arts Center Festival, Brooklyn (2003), and at Paradigm Art, Inc., New York and the Weatherspoon Art Museum Biennial Exhibition, Greensboro, North Carolina, (2006).