How to Shrimp Cocktail - Solo Exhibition with Towson University Holtzman Gallery

How to Shrimp Cocktail, an installation by Danni O’Brien, is comprised of 20 works completed in 2021 rooted in irreverence, queerness, and absurdity. A dog bowl designed to train pets to eat more slowly is shoved into an abstracted diagram from a vintage biology book, coated in hot dog colored matter. A funeral wreath stand suspends a baby rocker wearing styrofoam peppers as horns and thorns while sporting a pleather purse handle and choker necklace as a harness.

Uncanny Bodies

As beings confined to our own understanding of time and space, the camera lens offers a portal into a new world of scale. As you step into the gallery, you condense to the size of a grain of sand. Your relationship to the world changes. The space is intimate, but expansive. Your time here is brief, but the opportunity for discovery is immense. Look closely… the life hides in the details.

Transfigural Isolations

Interpreting the conversation of painting, art history, and curation I combine two and three-dimensional elements to create abstract contemporary contexts for the classical paintings of Giovanni Bellini. Exploring the development of his work through different points of his career, the abstracted pieces develop out of work created with varying purposes for viewing. The earliest piece, an altarpiece with religious function, the middle pieces, panels for everyday use in a cabinet, and the final, an oil painting for aesthetic visual documentation. 

Mama Nef's Artbooks

I love books.   Always have.  I love how they smell and feel, their different textures and sizes, the way they weigh in my hands and lap, and the foreplay of their pages against my fingertips.  I love the personality of their Titles  and  colorful covers and even their solid-colored covers with no text—that’s so sexy. And how their inner parts get laid, overlaid, blocked,  flushed, and  s           t           r           e           w           n   across the territory of pages for readers’ consumption.  The more delicious the content, the better.                 
 

In Between

In Between is a site-specific installation located in the attic of The Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture. This installation is made up of materials found in the basement of The Peale and acts as a careful consideration for how the past remains in the present. The placements and constructions within this space function as portals that reveal shadows, nooks, and movements.
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