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Deborah Dancy Paintings

American, b. 1949
Deborah Dancy is a multi-media abstract artist, whose paintings, drawings, digital photography and sculptural objects examine and mine abstraction’s potential to move across mediums and materials exploring subtlety and confrontation. There is an undercurrent of nuance and tension that mark her work, as if something is poised to happen. Dancy’s gestural brushstrokes—what she calls “tangential entanglements” and “linear demarcations”—are characteristic of her engaging, disruptive style. Abutting shapes and colors are inserted to provoke and entice, yet disrupt. From densely painted fields to minimally suggested forms, Dancy’s work operates in the recognition that moments, meanderings, accidents and process operate best when beautiful and disconcerting are combined. Her paintings, sensuous linear gestures glide across the surface until abruptly they collide with the unexpected. Dancy embraces the natural ambiguity of abstraction. Although her works are inspired by her own emotions and experiences, they also allow viewers to contemplate their own relationships to her work. Dancy says, “I make abstract work because I am interested in its ability to operate in a realm in which beauty and tension simultaneously exist without explanation or narrative.” In her photography as well as her sculptures, one finds images, cobbled bricolage of detritus, found and fabricated objects, playful yet pointed exist as simultaneously humorous and grotesque. Deborah Dancy retired in 2017 as Professor Emeritus of art at the University of Connecticut where she was on the faculty in the Department of Art and Art History since 1981. She has received numerous significant honors and awards, including: a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, New England Foundation for the Arts/NEA Individual Artist Grant, Nexus Press Artist Book Project Award, Visual Studies Artist Book Project Residency Grant, The American Antiquarian Society’s William Randolph Hearst Fellowship, among others. In 2018 Dancy was included in the exhibition Magnetic Fields, organized by the Kemper Museum and traveled as well to the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Magnetic Fields places abstract works by multiple generations of black women artists in context with one another—and within the larger history of abstract art—for the first time, revealing the artists’ role as under-recognized leaders in abstraction. Dancy has exhibited nationally and internationally at museums and institutions such as The Fuller Museum, The Housatonic Museum, The Mattatuck Museum, The College of Saint Rose, The University of Rhode Island, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, The Spencer Museum, The Mead Art Museum, SACI Gallery, Florence, Italy, The US Embassy in Paris, and The DeCordova Museum. Her work is in numerous collections including: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, 21C Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Birmingham Museum of Art, The Hunter Museum, The Detroit Institute of Art, The Montgomery Museum of Art, The Spencer Museum of Art, The Hunter Museum of Art, Vanderbilt University, Grinnell College, Oberlin College Museum of Art, Davidson Art Center, Wesleyan University, The Bellagio Hotel, and The United States Embassy in Cameroon.
(Biography provided by Marcia Wood Gallery)
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Artist: Deborah Dancy
Deborah Dancy "Discovery" Oil on Canvas Abstract Painting
By Deborah Dancy
Located in New York, NY
"I work abstractly because I am interested in its ability to operate in a realm in which beauty and tension simultaneously exist without explanation or narrative. It’s my intention t...
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2010s Deborah Dancy Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Deborah Dancy "State of Being 17" - Abstract Acrylic Painting on Paper
By Deborah Dancy
Located in New York, NY
Deborah Dancy State of Being 17, 2021 acrylic on paper 38 x 30 in. (dan039) This original contemporary abstract work on paper by Deborah Dancy is comprised of grey, brown, white, blue, yellow, and black hues, in her signature built up/re-built space that as she says, "operate in a realm in which beauty and tension simultaneously exist without explanation or narrative." Deborah Dancy is an abstract artist. Her paintings and drawings are sensuous provocations beset with marks that guide, then abruptly collide into confrontational slabs of color. There is an atmosphere of complex but urgent tension in her work, as she builds tangential linear demarcations, and abutting shapes, that provoke, entice and disrupt; -taking us everywhere and nowhere. From densely painted forms to more minimally declared images, Dancy’s work operates in the recognition that meanderings, intentional and accidental declarations are best when the beautiful and the disconcerting exist simultaneously. Deborah Dancy was born in Bessemer, Alabama and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She earned BFA from Illinois Wesleyan University and an MS and an MFA from Illinois State University. She is the recipient of John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Yaddo Fellow, and a National Endowment of the Arts NEFA award. Her work is in many collections including The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Birmingham Museum of Art, The Hunter Museum and The Detroit Institute of Art. N’Namdi Contemporary Miami, Robischon Gallery...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Deborah Dancy Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Deborah Dancy "State of Being 20" - Abstract Acrylic Painting on Paper
By Deborah Dancy
Located in New York, NY
Deborah Dancy State of Being 20, 2021 acrylic on paper 38 x 30 in. (dan041) This original contemporary abstract work on paper by Deborah Dancy is comprised of black, white, and grey paint, in her signature built up/re-built space that as she says, "operate in a realm in which beauty and tension simultaneously exist without explanation or narrative." Deborah Dancy is an abstract artist. Her paintings and drawings are sensuous provocations beset with marks that guide, then abruptly collide into confrontational slabs of color. There is an atmosphere of complex but urgent tension in her work, as she builds tangential linear demarcations, and abutting shapes, that provoke, entice and disrupt; -taking us everywhere and nowhere. From densely painted forms to more minimally declared images, Dancy’s work operates in the recognition that meanderings, intentional and accidental declarations are best when the beautiful and the disconcerting exist simultaneously. Deborah Dancy was born in Bessemer, Alabama and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She earned BFA from Illinois Wesleyan University and an MS and an MFA from Illinois State University. She is the recipient of John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Yaddo Fellow, and a National Endowment of the Arts NEFA award. Her work is in many collections including The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Birmingham Museum of Art, The Hunter Museum and The Detroit Institute of Art. N’Namdi Contemporary Miami, Robischon Gallery...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Deborah Dancy Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Deborah Dancy "In Short Order" - Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas
By Deborah Dancy
Located in New York, NY
Deborah Dancy In Short Order, 2021 oil on canvas 26 x 24 in. (dan031) This original contemporary abstract oil painting on canvas by Deborah Dancy is comprised of blue, orange, cream, and black hues in her signature built up/re-built space. Deborah Dancy is an abstract artist. Her paintings and drawings are sensuous provocations beset with marks that guide, then abruptly collide into confrontational slabs of color. There is an atmosphere of complex but urgent tension in her work, as she builds tangential linear demarcations, and abutting shapes, that provoke, entice and disrupt; -taking us everywhere and nowhere. From densely painted forms to more minimally declared images, Dancy’s work operates in the recognition that meanderings, intentional and accidental declarations are best when the beautiful and the disconcerting exist simultaneously. Deborah Dancy was born in Bessemer, Alabama and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She earned BFA from Illinois Wesleyan University and an MS and an MFA from Illinois State University. She is the recipient of John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Yaddo Fellow, and a National Endowment of the Arts NEFA award. Her work is in many collections including The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Birmingham Museum of Art, The Hunter Museum and The Detroit Institute of Art. N’Namdi Contemporary Miami, Robischon...
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2010s Abstract Deborah Dancy Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Deborah Dancy "Believe it or Not" - Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas
By Deborah Dancy
Located in New York, NY
Deborah Dancy Believe it or Not, 2021 oil on canvas 32 x 34 in. (dan029) This original contemporary abstract painting by Deborah Dancy is comprised of hues of light pink, lime green, grey, and maroon in her signature built up/re-built space that as she says, "operate in a realm in which beauty and tension simultaneously exist without explanation or narrative." Deborah Dancy is an abstract artist. Her paintings and drawings are sensuous provocations beset with marks that guide, then abruptly collide into confrontational slabs of color. There is an atmosphere of complex but urgent tension in her work, as she builds tangential linear demarcations, and abutting shapes, that provoke, entice and disrupt; -taking us everywhere and nowhere. From densely painted forms to more minimally declared images, Dancy’s work operates in the recognition that meanderings, intentional and accidental declarations are best when the beautiful and the disconcerting exist simultaneously. Dancy was born in Bessemer, Alabama and raised in Chicago, Illinois. She earned BFA from Illinois Wesleyan University and an MS and an MFA from Illinois State University. She is the recipient of John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Yaddo Fellow, and a National Endowment of the Arts NEFA award. Her work is in many collections including The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Birmingham Museum of Art, The Hunter Museum and The Detroit Institute of Art. N’Namdi Contemporary Miami, Robischon Gallery...
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2010s Abstract Deborah Dancy Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Deborah Dancy "A Misunderstanding" - Abstract oil on canvas
By Deborah Dancy
Located in New York, NY
Deborah Dancy A Misunderstanding , 2020 oil on canvas 40 x 36 in. (dan001) This original contemporary abstract painting by Deborah Dancy is comprised of , grey, brown, white, purple, green, and black hues, in her signature built up/re-built space that as she says, "operate in a realm in which beauty and tension simultaneously exist without explanation or narrative." I like to deal with fragments. Because no matter what the thought would be if it were fully worked out, it wouldn’t be as good as the suggestion of a thought that the space gives you. Nothing fully worked out could be so arresting, spooky. — Anne Carson...
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2010s Abstract Deborah Dancy Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Deborah Dancy "It's Now or Never" - Abstract oil painting on canvas
By Deborah Dancy
Located in New York, NY
Deborah Dancy It's Now or Never, 2021 oil on canvas 22 x 22 in. (dan005) This original contemporary abstract painting by Deborah Dancy is comprised of hues of black, white, brown, blue and yellow in her signature built up/re-built space that as she says, "operate in a realm in which beauty and tension simultaneously exist without explanation or narrative." I like to deal with fragments. Because no matter what the thought would be if it were fully worked out, it wouldn’t be as good as the suggestion of a thought that the space gives you. Nothing fully worked out could be so arresting, spooky. — Anne...
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2010s Abstract Deborah Dancy Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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Making a Mojo Large Abstract Oil Painting African American Woman Artist
By Deborah Dancy
Located in Surfside, FL
Deborah Dancy, also known as Deborah Muirhead (born 1949), is a Black American woman painter of large-scale abstractions in oil; she is also a printmaker and mixed media artist. Her work is also known to encompass digital photography. In 1981, she began to teach at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, where she taught painting for thirty-five years until her retirement in 2017. She has received awards such as a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Women’s Studio Workshop Studio Residency Grant, and a YADDO fellowship. Dancy was born in 1949 in Bessemer, Alabama. She was born into an African American family who treasured their heritage and ancestry. Dancy received her BFA from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1973, as well as an MS in printmaking and MFA in painting from Illinois State University in 1976 and 1979, respectively. Dancy’s works are in the permanent collections of numerous galleries and academic institutions, some of which include the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Dancy was also nominated for a Connecticut Children's Book Award for Illustration for The Freedom Business as an illustrator and co-author. Deborah Dancy was the art director and the illustrator of The Freedom Business, a book by her friend, Marilyn Nelson. Public Collections Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio Baltimore Museum of Art Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Ala. Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, S.C. Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. Detroit Institute of Arts Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa Fine Art Museum, Bardo Arts Center, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, N.C. Fine Arts Museum, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tenn. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Mo. Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Ala. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Penn. Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind. Spencer Museum of Art,[15] University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans. United States Embassy, Yaoundé, Cameroon Awards & Honors Women's Studio Workshop Studio Residency Grant Banff Creative Residency Program Grant University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts Outstanding Faculty Award The University of Connecticut Chancellor’s Research Fellowship American Antiquarian Society William Randolph Hearst Artist and Writers Creative Arts Fellowship Nexus Press Artist Book Project Residency Award Visual Studies Press Artist in Residency Award Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Nominee John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship New England Foundation for the Arts Regional National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant[1] Joan Mitchell Foundation Nominee Juror's Merit Award, New American Talent: Laguna Gloria Museum Connecticut Commission on the Arts Individual Artist Grant Yale University Visiting Faculty Fellow YADDO Fellowship Connecticut Book Award Illustration Nominee - “The Freedom Business”Professor Deborah Dancy has been teaching at the University of Connecticut since 1981. She has an MS in Printmaking and an MFA in Painting from Illinois State University. She was included in the show Magnetic Fields, Expanding American Abstraction 1960’s to Today at The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. Abstract works by multiple generations of Black women artists, within the larger history of abstract art. Many featured artists have ties to the Washington, D.C., area, particularly the Department of Art at Howard University. Evocative prints, unconventional sculptures, and monumental paintings reveal the artists’ role as under-recognized leaders in abstraction. Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Maren Hassinger, Alma Woodsey Thomas, Mildred Thompson, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Sylvia Snowden, Candida Alvarez, Betty Blayton, Chakaia Booker, Lilian Thomas Burwell...
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Canvas, Oil

Making a Mojo Large Abstract Oil Painting African American Woman Artist
By Deborah Dancy
Located in Surfside, FL
Deborah Dancy, also known as Deborah Muirhead (born 1949), is a Black American woman painter of large-scale abstractions in oil; she is also a printmaker and mixed media artist. Her work is also known to encompass digital photography. In 1981, she began to teach at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, where she taught painting for thirty-five years until her retirement in 2017. She has received awards such as a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Women’s Studio Workshop Studio Residency Grant, and a YADDO fellowship. Dancy was born in 1949 in Bessemer, Alabama. She was born into an African American family who treasured their heritage and ancestry. Dancy received her BFA from Illinois Wesleyan University in 1973, as well as an MS in printmaking and MFA in painting from Illinois State University in 1976 and 1979, respectively. Dancy’s works are in the permanent collections of numerous galleries and academic institutions, some of which include the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama, and the Baltimore Museum of Art. Dancy was also nominated for a Connecticut Children's Book Award for Illustration for The Freedom Business as an illustrator and co-author. Deborah Dancy was the art director and the illustrator of The Freedom Business, a book by her friend, Marilyn Nelson. Public Collections Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio Baltimore Museum of Art Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Ala. Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, S.C. Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. Detroit Institute of Arts Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa Fine Art Museum, Bardo Arts Center, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, N.C. Fine Arts Museum, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tenn. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Mo. Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Ala. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Penn. Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind. Spencer Museum of Art,[15] University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kans. United States Embassy, Yaoundé, Cameroon Awards & Honors Women's Studio Workshop Studio Residency Grant Banff Creative Residency Program Grant University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts Outstanding Faculty Award The University of Connecticut Chancellor’s Research Fellowship American Antiquarian Society William Randolph Hearst Artist and Writers Creative Arts Fellowship Nexus Press Artist Book Project Residency Award Visual Studies Press Artist in Residency Award Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Nominee John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship New England Foundation for the Arts Regional National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant[1] Joan Mitchell Foundation Nominee Juror's Merit Award, New American Talent: Laguna Gloria Museum Connecticut Commission on the Arts Individual Artist Grant Yale University Visiting Faculty Fellow YADDO Fellowship Connecticut Book Award Illustration Nominee - “The Freedom Business”Professor Deborah Dancy has been teaching at the University of Connecticut since 1981. She has an MS in Printmaking and an MFA in Painting from Illinois State University. She was included in the show Magnetic Fields, Expanding American Abstraction 1960’s to Today at The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC. Abstract works by multiple generations of Black women artists, within the larger history of abstract art. Many featured artists have ties to the Washington, D.C., area, particularly the Department of Art at Howard University. Evocative prints, unconventional sculptures, and monumental paintings reveal the artists’ role as under-recognized leaders in abstraction. Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Maren Hassinger, Alma Woodsey Thomas, Mildred Thompson, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Sylvia Snowden, Candida Alvarez, Betty Blayton, Chakaia Booker, Lilian Thomas Burwell...
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