Items Similar to Deborah Dancy "A Misunderstanding" - Abstract oil on canvas
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 5
Deborah DancyDeborah Dancy "A Misunderstanding" - Abstract oil on canvas2020
2020
About the Item
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
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 to create ambiguous spaces that aim to be both beautiful and unnerving. In this realm of the incomplete, the fragment, the ruin and residue of - “almost was” and “might become,” I work between the edges of struggle and discovery. I take pleasure in moving paint around until something holds my interest and interrupt any assumptions about what it should become. Through a series of processes involving scraping away and repainting, fragmented tangled structures, patched and disjointed emerge to organize themselves in ambiguous spaces. I want to honor the process and have the exposed forms resist location by existing in tangential 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 Gallery, Denver, and Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, represent her work.
- Creator:Deborah Dancy (1949, American)
- Creation Year:2020
- Dimensions:Height: 40 in (101.6 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:
About the Seller
No Reviews Yet
Vetted Seller
These experienced sellers undergo a comprehensive evaluation by our team of in-house experts.
Established in 1976
1stDibs seller since 2011
71 sales on 1stDibs
Associations
Association of Women Art Dealers
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Ships From: New York, NY
- Return PolicyA return for this item may be initiated within 14 days of delivery.
More From This SellerView All
- Rocio Rodriguez "Broken Image" Abstract Oil Pastel on PaperBy Rocio RodriguezLocated in New York, NYRocio Rodriguez Broken Image, 2013 acrylic and oil on canvas 60 x 72 in. This original oil oil pastel drawing on paper by Rocio Rodriguez features abstracted rectangles rendered in ...Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil, Acrylic
- Josette Urso "January" -- Abstract Oil Painting on CanvasBy Josette UrsoLocated in New York, NYJosette Urso January, 2020 oil on canvas 16 x 20 in. (urso199) New York painter Josette Urso paints intuitively in reaction to her immediate surroundings, from both inside and outsi...Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Josette Urso "Oh So!" -- Abstract Oil Painting on CanvasBy Josette UrsoLocated in New York, NYJosette Urso Oh So!, 2020 oil on canvas 48 x 60 in. (urso192) New York painter Josette Urso paints intuitively in reaction to her immediate surroundings, from both inside and outsid...Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Josette Urso "Uphill" -- Abstract Oil Painting on CanvasBy Josette UrsoLocated in New York, NYJosette Urso Uphill, 2020 oil on canvas 24 x 30 in. (urso198) New York painter Josette Urso paints intuitively in reaction to her immediate surroundings, from both inside and outsid...Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Josette Urso "Evergreen" -- Abstract Oil Painting on CanvasBy Josette UrsoLocated in New York, NYJosette Urso Evergreen, 2020 oil on canvas 24 x 30 in. (urso197) New York painter Josette Urso paints intuitively in reaction to her immediate surroundings, from both inside and out...Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Josette Urso "Those Apples" -- Abstract Oil Painting on CanvasBy Josette UrsoLocated in New York, NYJosette Urso Those Apples, 2020 oil on canvas 48 x 36 in. (urso196) New York painter Josette Urso paints intuitively in reaction to her immediate surroundings, from both inside and ...Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
You May Also Like
- Oil on Canvas “BS Trust”By Frank ArnoldLocated in Fresno, CA“BS Trust” is 36” x 36”. Frank Arnold’s paintings exhibit the highest quality materials for a truly archival piece, created to last generations. Much of Frank Arnold’s work is sourc...Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- My Other SideBy Frank ArnoldLocated in Fresno, CA“My Other Side” is 48”x 36”. This is an earlier piece by Arnold from the estate of a late collector of his work. This piece is predominantly shades of red from light to almost black....Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Moving 5By Frank ArnoldLocated in Fresno, CA“Moving 5” is 60”x 48”. The vibrant yellow surface tones of this piece are broken in several places allowing random glimpses of Arnold’s dreamlike underpainting for a multi-dimension...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Oil on Canvas “A58”By Frank ArnoldLocated in Fresno, CA"A58" is 72” x 66”. The electric blues on black stand out from the figure on a mixed background of medium earth tones and heavy textures. Frank Arnold’s paintings exhibit the highest...Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Oil on Canvas "OTL 8"By Frank ArnoldLocated in Fresno, CA“OTL 8” is 60”x 60”. Central figure of Vibrant to deep reds on a split field of warm beige/coral and deep red/black. The foreground exhibits heavy strokes and Arnold’s “8” and “X” fi...Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Oil on Canvas "Azul Arroyo"By Frank ArnoldLocated in Fresno, CA“Azul Arroyo” is 60”x48”. Central figure in blue with white accents on a background ranging from white to deep blue/black. The foreground exhibits heavy strokes and Arnold’s “8” fig...Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil