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Horizon, a Deepening Therein
2011
61 x 94 x 2 in. (154.94 x 238.76 x 5.08 cm)
Danae Mattes (Eastern United States, 1958 - ) Primary
Indestructible Wonder, April 18, 2016 - January 29, 2017, Second Floor, Central and North Galleries, San José Museum of Art.
Indestructible Wonder (2016-2017)
Danae Mattes creates ceramic sculptural abstractions and paintings that “map” her time spent in nature by welcoming natural processes into her work: alluvial actions, erosion, and evaporation. She tempers clay with elements like water, air, and the sun to expose its numerous physical states such as cracked surfaces to residue left from evaporation. As Mattes stated, “I set the conditions and let the material freely act within its own properties.”
To create Horizon, a Deepening Therein, Mattes laid an unprimed canvas on the floor of her studio and flooded it with layers of clay, slip, water, and glue, sprinkling the surface with powdered clays to add gorgeous, varied textures. Mattes associates the permeability of clay by natural forces with the similar permeability of the human body. In her paintings, she seeks to depict a poetic experience of moving through the natural world.
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Horizon, a Deepening Therein
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201161 x 94 x 2 in. (154.94 x 238.76 x 5.08 cm)
Danae Mattes (Eastern United States, 1958 - ) Primary
Object Type: Painting
Creation Place: North America
Medium and Support: Clay, paper and pigment on canvas
Credit Line: Gift of Barbara and William Hyland
Accession Number: 2014.04a-b
Exhibition
Indestructible Wonder, April 18, 2016 - January 29, 2017, Second Floor, Central and North Galleries, San José Museum of Art.
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Indestructible Wonder (2016-2017)
Danae Mattes creates ceramic sculptural abstractions and paintings that “map” her time spent in nature by welcoming natural processes into her work: alluvial actions, erosion, and evaporation. She tempers clay with elements like water, air, and the sun to expose its numerous physical states such as cracked surfaces to residue left from evaporation. As Mattes stated, “I set the conditions and let the material freely act within its own properties.”
To create Horizon, a Deepening Therein, Mattes laid an unprimed canvas on the floor of her studio and flooded it with layers of clay, slip, water, and glue, sprinkling the surface with powdered clays to add gorgeous, varied textures. Mattes associates the permeability of clay by natural forces with the similar permeability of the human body. In her paintings, she seeks to depict a poetic experience of moving through the natural world.
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