Bio:

Danielle Nordenberg (b. MA 1996) is a first generation, nonbinary, Boston based painter, botanical designer, and visual art educator. Their work explores questions of authenticity and what it means to reveal the (un)real by way of using bright and fearless palettes, while threading fantastical and representational imagery in the same compositions. Nordenberg’s work has been shown at Midway Artist Gallery in Boston, Shockboxx Gallery in LA, The Canvas by Querencia in NYC, The Lowell Arts League in Lowell, and Wallkill River Center for the Arts in upstate NY. 

They work out of Studio 47 at Joy Street Studios and are always open to visits, collaborations and experimentations.  

Statement:

Danielle Adina Nordenberg's work, influenced by their family's Soviet and refugee experience and their own queer and disabled histories, explores themes of authenticity and the (un)real. Their paintings weave together realism with fantastical elements to create dreamlike narratives inviting viewers into spaces of subtle discomfort. Growing up amidst ableism, homophobia, and generational disconnections their early coping mechanism of transfiguring negative spaces evolved into a refusal to see absence as lack, animating the ambiguous in-betweens. Personal experiences, conversations, and sensations are assembled into surreal forms often derived from digitally collaging images and drawings. The consonance of bright colors with out-of-place imagery creates an eerie tone. Their vibrant palette, and almost cartoon-ish, “unserious” compositions challenges conventional notions of validity and knowledge, relishing the mysterious and resisting confinement. Nordenberg’s creations serve as an homage to everything that defies categorization, seeking to preserve the tenderness of all that roams within the strange and uncertain.