Produced by Exhibition A, 2023
Hand-painted gouache and watercolor pencil on archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle museum etching paper
Print: 61 x 76.2 cm | 24 x 30 in
Frame: 67.3 x 81.3 x 3.2 cm | 26.5 x 32 x 1.25 in
Edition of 20 + 2AP + 2PP
Signed and dated by the artist
Hand-painted gouache and watercolor pencil on archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle museum etching paper
Print: 61 x 76.2 cm | 24 x 30 in
Frame: 67.3 x 81.3 x 3.2 cm | 26.5 x 32 x 1.25 in
Edition of 20 + 2AP + 2PP
Signed and dated by the artist
From the producer:
Working within the established genre of the female nude, Danielle Orchard has commanded attention of contemporary art audiences by introducing her distinctly present-day ethos to a historically imbalanced lineage. Female figures in Orchard’s scenes are featured in various states of repose within haven-like atmospheres, yet there is a disquietude, an unease that seems discordant alongside symbols of leisure. Environments are tilted or fractured, Orchard’s nods to analytic cubism, enveloping the characters in such a way that the psychological space of a scene creates kinesis within the stillness. Unlike Manet’s Olympia or Valzquez’s Venus at her Mirror, Orchard’s subjects retain their dimensional humanity, intimately aware of the behemoth task of being seen and the justified ambivalence that follows.
Pictorial references and cinematographic allusions abound in Orchard’s oeuvre. In our newest collaboration, Rear Windows, a hand-finished print series of 20, Orchard channels the iconic voyeuristic tension of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 classic film. Drawing multiple perspectives into question, the scene echoes within itself, a deceptively serene meditation on past, present, and future.