Danielle Cartier, Artist of the Month
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Gallery on Main's sixth annual Artist of the Month series launches with works by New Jersey-based artist Danielle Cartier, whose multimedia work will be on view, and available for purchase, from February 1 through 28, 2022.
Meet the artist at a free opening reception on Saturday, February 5, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.
Cartier is best known for her mural projects and large-scale, multimedia paintings made from reconstructed materials, recombined ephemera, and layered printmaking and painting processes.
Since 2017, she has painted and installed more than 15 grant-funded public art murals in Camden, New Jersey. She continues to make large-scale, mixed media paintings, and is currently working on multiple new community-based public art projects throughout southern New Jersey.
Cartier explains, “I see myself as a mixer in terms of materials but also in terms of methodologies; I employ the found and felt as well as the improvisational and the strategic. My artwork stems from my interest in reconstructing images that circulate throughout contemporary society in order to form a version that is my own.”
She continues, “I tear what the world gives me into pieces and put it back together with paint. Tearing is an act of frustration, defiance and play against what is brilliantly manufactured for me to consume. Ripping is a way for me to physically expose rough edges and ideas that do not align perfectly. I’m making sense of all the parts as they appear.”
A resident of Gloucester County, New Jersey, Danielle Cartier was born in California and grew up in the Northern California Bay Area. She graduated from Sonoma State University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, concentrating in painting and printmaking, then earned her Master of Fine Art in Interdisciplinary Studio Practice from the Graduate School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Cartier’s work has been exhibited across the West Coast, the Midwest, the South, New England, and the Mid-Atlantic region, including the Tri-State area and greater Philadelphia.
An artist-educator, Cartier currently teaches various two-dimensional design, drawing, and painting courses at Rowan College of South Jersey and at Stockton University in Galloway, New Jersey. Additionally, she teaches adult-level studio art courses at Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia and mixed-media painting at Perkins Center for the Arts in Moorestown and Collingswood, New Jersey.
She has also taught studio art courses at Sonoma State University, University of Pennsylvania, Harcum College, Rutgers University in Camden, and Stockton University; and instructed visual art at non-profits and community art centers in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Delaware.