Danette Landry

Solal

Danette Landry was a longtime resident of California before moving to Paris to pursue studies in cultural anthropology. After receiving a Master’s degree and completing her thesis at the Ecole des Hautes Études Sociales in Paris, Landry decided to devote herself to a life of art. This turning point manifested as a profound and splintering journey, reigniting a creative process that was instilled at a young age by her mother, a self-taught painter. Landry calls for a constant reconstruction and materialization of one’s self. This force is represented in her bronze monoliths. Landry identifies each monolith with gender and individually they carry a variety of wounds analogous to those found in humanity. Landry's patinated bronze sculptures exude a driving force to survive anything she expresses, representing her will to resist and reconstruct life’s trials and hardship.