DANIELLE ORCHARD

A Face For Every Season

March 12th - April 10th, 2021

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A Face For Every Season marks the Los Angeles solo debut of Danielle Orchard. The show title is a riff on the Dolly Parton lyrics to Turn, Turn Turn. “These new paintings are about the anticipation and rituals leading up to a night on the town,” says the artist, "and how these small preceding acts are often more meaningful and necessary than the main event.”

A woman waits for her nail polish to dry while simultaneously smoking - the window cracked just so - and eating pepperoni pizza. In another composition a female figure lollygags in bed with a plateful of sardines, a bowl of popcorn and a landline telephone receiver laying fallow beside her. Cherries and high-heels, stubby cigarettes and mustrad-lined hot dogs polka dot these canvases like clues to a riddled charm bracelet. The passivity of the pose is skillfully contrasted with scratched-out grids of tile and dripping paint down legs you might guess is Orchard’s artistic license on runny stockings.

Danielle Orchard (b. 1985 in Michigan City, IN) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Recent solo and group exhibitions include “Sympathetic Magic”, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles; “Mother’s Magazines”, Jack Hanley, New York and “3PM”, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen.

For inquiries please email erin@halfgallery.com