Danielle Orchard

American, b. 1985

@daniorchard

“There’s an airlessness in a lot of the paintings that I love, a flattening of space. It’s as if the whole scene has been paused or a vacuum has sucked all the air out.”
—Danielle Orchard

With her star now risen, Danielle Orchard wryly nods to art historical forebears, such as Picasso and Matisse, making luscious, angular pseudo self-portraits of women caught up in romantic and mundane rituals. “They’re familiar rituals that look very serene,” Orchard says, “but when you’re a woman who has experienced them, you know that there’s usually a lot going on.”

For this sold-out series, the artist has hand embellished ten prints with new still-life elements rendered through oil pastel, gouache and Flashe.