Lightfast Presents: Intertwine
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Opening Reception
Saturday February 24, 2024, 5pm Intertwine Suite for solo cello, composed and performed by Monica Scott Reading by author Sylvia Brownrigg |
A vibrant multidisciplinary installation created by Lightfast, a collaborative quartet, including visual artists Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes, musician/composer MonicaScott, and writer Sylvia Brownrigg.
Each facet of the installation resonates within the space: liquid clay evaporation pools draw attention to the Earth’s greater water cycle, a large-scale cut paper silhouette has echoes of a primeval forest, a cello composition is presented as a visitor-activated sound sculpture, mounted prose pieces welcome readers down imagined pathways, and a series of short experimental films combine the artists' voices. These elements communicate across the gallery, encouraging phenomenological engagement with di Rosa’s setting – its water and light, its flora and fauna, its natural and human history. |
Opening, 2022 | Clay, mica, and pigment on canvas | 78 x 66 inches
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Dolby Chadwick Gallery is thrilled to announce that Danae Mattes' Opening will be joining the de Young Museum's permanent collection.
Opening is part of a body of work exhibited in Mattes' most recent show at Dolby Chadwick Gallery, Terraqueous, and showcases her innovative art-making practice that uses the earth as both subject and material. By referencing and recreating alluvial environments, her work is both an ode to and enactment of the natural processes of the earth. The artist's new usage of mica, aluminum, and metallic pigment is on display as moments of Opening catch a glint from the sun. This acquisition was made possible by the generosity of Lorna Meyer & Dennis Calas, and Carol & Gerry Parker. The gallery also extends its gratitude to Claudia Schmuckli, Emma Acker and Janna Keegan for their enthusiasm for Danae Mattes's work and for all of their efforts to bring Opening into the de Young Museum's permanent collection. |
Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC) PresentsBody to Body: Enacting Process in Art and Psychoanalysis
Studio visit and conversation with artist Danae Mattes and Deborah Melman, PhD. Moderated by Ramsay Breslin. Friday June 9, 6:30-8:30 at the artists studio in Berkeley This event is part of PINC's Second Friday Series Free and open to the public CE credits available More about the second Friday series can be found on the events calendar linked here Image shown right: Untitled laser print by Danae Mattes featuring dancers Belinda He and Karla Quintero, 47.5” h. X 36” w, 2023 |
Lucas Artists Program presents LIGHTFAST at the Montalvo Arts Center.
The LIGHTFAST quartet will be developing new material for this Earth Day Celebration, responding creatively to Montalvo’s environment, its fauna and flora, its natural and human history. The results of their collaborative explorations will be presented in an open studio installation that includes a live prose reading with musical performance and projections. Thursday, April 20 from 5:30–8:30pm with installations and events available for visitors to engage with during the weekend of April 22–23. More details here. |
Under WaterGroup Exhibition at the Palo Alto Art Center
January 21-April 8, 2023 Featuring the Terraqueous film and Reservoir (shown left). Under Water is a component of Climate Connections, a year-long series highlighting the power of art to promote reflection, dialogue and action on climate change. Read more about the exhibition and contributing artists here. |
Dillbohner - Brownrigg - Mattes - Scott
present LIGHTFAST - a multimedia installation performance with texts by Sylvia Brownrigg, music by Monica Scott and visual images by Christel Dillbohner and Danae Mattes at the Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, October 28 & 29 Read the Review Watch the Performance |
Terraqueous at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
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Lightfast
text - film - improvisation - multimedia - installation Christel Dillbohner :: Danae Mattes :: Sylvia Brownrigg :: Monica Scott Premiering February 12 & 13 Oakland, CA at the Dresher Ensemble Studio |
Edinboro University’s ART100 Celebration featuring Danae Mattes' Evaporation Pool XI
January 17 - March 4, 2020 |
Plunge, paired with poet Tamsin Smith
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Publication available here!
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Where the River Widens
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Evaporation Pool IX |
Waterlines: October 6, 2017 - March 18, 2018
New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) presents Waterlines, an art exhibition that delves into our deep connection with one of Earth’s most important elements. Exhibiting artists include: Judith Belzer, Barbara Boissevain, Marie Cameron, Matthew Chase-Daniel, Christel Dillbohner, Linda Gass, Nancy Genn, Liz Hickok, Theodora Varnay Jones, Pantea Karimi, Cheryl E. Leonard, Danae Mattes, Marsha McDonald, Klea McKenna, Ryan M. Reynolds and Linda Simmel. Curated by Marianne McGrath. |
Artist as Subject, a 20th Anniversary Celebration at Dolby Chadwick Gallery, July 10 - September 2, 2017.
Wabi-Sabi, Group exhition featuring Bay Area clay artists at B. Sakata Garo Fine Art, Sacramento, January 3-28, 2017. Artist reception January 14 from 6-9pm. Alluvial Maps, Solo Exhibition at Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, November 3 - December 3, 2016. Opening Reception, Thursday November 3, 5:30-7:30 Widewalls Exhibition Preview by Frederic Godward Indestructible Wonder, San Jose Museum of Art, August 18, 2016 - January 29, 2017 Lisa Adams, Chester Arnold, Ruth Asawa, Sandow Birk, Val Britton, Chris Jordan, Amy Kaufman, Michael Light, Danae Mattes, Richard Misrach, Nathan Redwood, Sam Richardson, Alyson Shotz, Kathryn Spence, Kirsten Stolle, and Gail Wight. Oakland artist Evan Holm will also create a new installation using water, manzanita branches, duckweed, and tape cassettes, commissioned by SJMA for this occasion. Contemplative Elements: Danae Mattes & Frances McCormack, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art December 19, 2015 - March 6, 2016 Lightning Strikes: 18 Poets, 18 Artists, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco December 12, 2015 - January 30, 2016 Character Studies: Clay from the Collection, San Jose Museum of Art October 3, 2015 - February 7, 2016 The Fleeting Nature of Danae Mattes' Art: Contra Costa Times, August 6, 2015, by Lou Fancher Danae Mattes: Transitory Waterscapes Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame August 9 - December 6, 2015 Public Reception 2-4, Sunday September 13, 2015 Click Here for museum updates, press, and photographs of the installation and progress of the evaporation pool Danae Mattes: River Passage, St. Mary's Museum of Art, Moraga, CA May 24 - September 6, 2015 Conversation with the Arts and Wine Reception, Sunday, June 7, 2pm |
Installation of Alluvial Maps at Dolby Chadwick Gallery, 2016
Photograph by Fatemeh Farajmandi Installation of Confluence at Dolby Chadwick Gallery
Artist as Subject, 2017 |