9006 - Danielle Baron Atkins ($2,500)

$2,500 value 

Donation Piece: Untitled, 2022

30x36"

Found objects on canvas

Danielle Baron Atkins is a painter working in Brooklyn and Woodstock, NY. Her work examines

the female form as well as the many roles of women in our contemporary society.

She abstracts, dissects, and exaggerates the female form. The women she depicts sit and stand

in suggestive poses, often wearing stilettos. These anonymous figures exude sexuality, fertility,

and motherhood. She utilizes a juxtaposition of delicate, stereotypically “feminine” colors with

repetitive, aggressive, graffiti-like markings. She repurposes remnants of her children’s

discarded belongings such as broken headphones (used during school lock downs), worn out

crocks and skateboarding sneakers, underwear bands that have lost their elasticity, socks and

mittens that have abandoned their partner, candy wrappers, torn vintage comic books found

under her children’s beds, old cookbooks, pill bottle tops, cardboard packages, and junk mail to

accentuate her underlying themes.

Motherhood has deeply affected her art-making process. Danielle’s sharp observations of the

roles and struggles of women create an ever-evolving definition of womanhood.