Getting to chat with the brilliant Mickey Noonan on The Standard Issue podcast about my work in general and CHOSEN, my solo show in London opening today (!) was an utter joy. It’s a rare and special thing to get to discuss my work with such a thorough, curious, and fun journalist. I hope you’ll listen!
Click here to hear to my episode, titled, “Danielle Durchslag and the dynasty of frozen cake.”
I can’t believe it, but my first ever solo show outside the US, CHOSEN, opens at Four Corners Gallery, in London, in a few days!! Amazing. The exhibition will be up between Oct 11th and 15th, as part of Frieze Week, and I’m beyond honored to participate.
Below is a sneak peek of the very large print we’ll be installing in the gallery’s front window:
And CHOSEN is already getting exciting UK press! Many thanks to the Jewish Telegraph for a super fun interview, and this lovely article:
Bring on the challenging discourse! I hope to see you there.
CHOSEN, my first solo exhibition outside the US, will be up in London next month, during Frieze week!! To have this happen in a city I love so much, at the same time as one of the most important art fairs out there, feels especially exciting. My work will be on view at Four Corners Gallery, a lovely space on the east side of the city.
CHOSEN marks another milestone for me - this is the first time I will get to show my short film, Eleanor of Illinois, on a loop, in a fine art space, the context I always wanted for this piece. I can't wait.
If you will be in London the evening of Oct 13th, and would like to attend the private viewing, please let me know. I will make sure your name is on the list.
All the thanks to Four Corners Gallery, and the wonderful Diana Ewer, who represents my work in the UK, for making this happen.
Hope to see you there!
Today is a really big Good News day for me and all the other folks engaged in radical lefty Jewish art making. Thanks to the author of this piece, Sol Brager, our movement now has a public narrative and acknowledgment, from Art Forum!!
And my voice/work are included! can’t believe it. It’s so exciting!!
So many thanks to Sol B, the Jewish Museum of Baltimore, Liora Ostroff, Sol Davis, The New Jewish Culture Fellowship, and all the other folks supporting challenging Jewish cultural production right now.
7 days until we begin rehearsals/shooting for my next short film, Anatevka!!
This image is of a huge map prop, created in collaboration with my wonderful graphic designer, Luis Melgar, and printed by Brooklyn Editions, for the set.
What a joy to be on this week’s Fake The Nation with the incomparable Negin Farsad and Shalewa Sharpe! We got into it about California crime politics, the Depp/Heard trial, and powerful women named Kathy.
Available wherever you get your podcasts! I really hope you’ll listen - I had such a ball gabbing with these two.
Huge thanks to Lilith magazine for publishing my essay about creating and wearing Mechitza, my recent art performance piece.
I had the best time chatting with the brilliant artists Hannah Aliza Goldman and Leora Ostroff on the Disloyal podcast! This is a show hosted by Mark Gunnery that comes from the Jewish Museum of Maryland.
We talked about the JMM exhibition A Fence Around the Torah, curated by Liora and including work by both me and Hannah. We also got into the erasure of Arabic/Arab identity amongst Mizrahi Jews in Israel, Jewish American wealth, and making passionately progressive, passionately Jewish art that a lot of Jews don’t like.
I had a total blast being a guest again on the Fake The Nation podcast, hosted by the glorious Negin Farsad! Negin, the wonderful comic Katie Compa, and I talked about the Nov midterms, America’s dangerous rags to riches narrative, and male infidelity on Facebook. We also laughed a lot!
Happy Passover! Happy Easter! Happy Spring!
This last Saturday night millions of Jews celebrated Passover (or Pesach), and on Sunday morning millions of Christians celebrated Easter. To honor both, I created and wore a Seder bonnet for this year’s Easter Parade! It was the only Jewish themed hat seen promenading, and got a really warm, lovely response. Even from the New York post!
The NYC parade is one of the most joyful, creative, passionate, playful events around. If you haven’t been, put it on your calendar for next year! It’s seriously one of my favorite days in this great city.
This Wednesday evening! The incredible Lila Corwin Berman and I will be presenting our work and talking all things Jewish wealth/philanthropy/shmita!
I hope you’ll click here to register to join us for this public zoom talk co-hosted by Congregation B’nai Jeshurun and Harvard Hillel.
Thanks to the Forward for covering A Fence Around The Torah at the Jewish Museum of Maryland and showcasing my work! Art about the Jewish relationship to safety and unsafety feels especially relevant right now.
Openings are always a dynamic, fun experience. But this one, for an exhibition I believe in so much, that delves into themes of Jewish fear/safety/protection, proved particularly powerful. This show feels like a needed shift in how Jewish cultural institutions present contemporary art, and I’m thrilled to have my work included. It was such a great night!
BIG NEWS!!
Wellesley College, my alma mater, has purchased 5 of my Relative Unknowns collages for its art collection! These pieces will hang in the Jewish Studies department, which makes this news particularly meaningful for me. I am SO excited and honored.
The Relative Unknowns series consists of collage portraits of people I know I’m related to, but whose photographs have outlived my family’s memory of their names, identities, and stories. Knowing these anonymous photographs would inevitably get thrown out, I squirreled them away to my room as a kid, keeping them into adulthood. In 2010, I started crafting collages based on these photographs, to get these unknown ancestors back up on the wall. Though these works can look painterly, or even photographic, the only materials employed to create them are paper, tape, and glue.
You can view more of the Relative Unknowns pieces by clicking here.
I’ve been waiting for an art exhibition about Jewish fear and safety for a VERY long time, and now that one is finally here I feel so lucky to have my work included!!
Many thanks to the Jewish Museum of Maryland and the show’s curator, Liora Ostroff, for including my BOUNTY video piece, Dangerous Opinions, in A Fence Around The Torah: Safety and Unsafety In Jewish Life.
December 5th through February 11th! If you’re in Baltimore in the coming months I hope you’ll check it out.
Preparing these pieces from my Relative Unknowns collage series for their new permanent home! Extremely excited for these works to live in the collection of an institution that has meant a ton to me, personally. I’ll be announcing where they’re off to soon!
New laurels have been added to the Eleanor of Illinois trailer! I’m so thankful to all the festivals that have supported this film. I never would have guessed my experimental video art short about American Jewish wealth would reach so many diverse audiences, and I’m grateful.
Thrilled to announce that my short film, Eleanor of Illinois, will be showing in the 2021 Cannes Short Film Festival!! Many thanks, as always, to the crazy talented team who brought this film to life.
Many thanks to Protocols Magazine for inviting me to create a piece, a textile work entitled Renew Our Days, for their latest issue. The theme for this issue is “The Other Side,” the phrase used to describe evil in Jewish mysticism, and my useable challah cover explores that theme around the terrible events of January 6th, 2021. Click here to see more and read my interview with Protocols!
Excited to have the video documentation from A Wandering Sukkah, my mobile Sukkot art project with the artist Ryan Frank, included in this group exhibition at 375 Hudson! Many thanks to the curator, Jay Grimm. On now through December, 2021.
