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Keeping Company: painting of three young people on a yellow couch in a wood-paneled room, with lamps, a patterned table of objects, and a bright green floor.
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Keeping Company

Danielle Klebes
Danielle Klebes

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March 3, 2023

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March 21, 2023

Keeping Company

Danielle Klebes

March 3 - 22, 2023

Opening Reception: Friday, March 3, 6-8pm

NARS Project Space

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Keeping Company explores the complexities of queer identity and its relationship to the intimate spaces we occupy. Through the use of vibrant yet understated oil paintings, the exhibit showcases individuals, largely members of the artist’s queer community, who are lost in thought in den-like environments. The interiors were inspired by a furnished apartment rented from a Hemingway-type, but despite the borrowed nature of the space, the figures are comfortable enough to appear vulnerable. Keeping Company challenges conventional ideas of domesticity and ownership.

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Read the press release here.

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About the artist:

Danielle Klebes lives and works at Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY. Danielle has exhibited in notable galleries and museums throughout the United States, Europe, and Canada. These include Midnight Adventure Club (2022), a solo show at AVA Gallery in Lebanon, NH, House Fire House Party (2020), a solo show at Installation Space in North Adams, MA, Fifty (2022), a group show at MoCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, Summer (2022), a group show at Galleri Christoffer Egelund in Copenhagen, Denmark, Portraiture Today (2021), a group show at the Springfield Museums, Springfield, MA, and Confluence of Tongues (2021), a group show at Grove Collective in London, UK. Danielle received her MFA in Visual Arts from Lesley University College of Art and Design in Cambridge, MA, in 2017.

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Installation view of Keeping Company: colorful figurative paintings on white gallery walls, a shelf and a figure in pink in the back, and exhibition title text at left.
Installation view of Keeping Company: a row of vividly colored interior paintings, including a purple room with a standing figure, on white walls.
Keeping Company: wall text reading "Keeping Company, Danielle Klebes, March 3 – 22" above a small painting of a plant in a room corner with a rainbow rug.
Work in Keeping Company: a mannequin-like figure in a pink robe and black hat faces a colorful bookshelf, below a mounted cow skull on a white brick wall.
Work in Keeping Company: painting of a record player, vinyl records, and leafy plants in front of a mirror reflecting two people lying in bed.
Work in Keeping Company: painting of three young people on a yellow couch in a wood-paneled room, with a patterned table of objects and a bright green floor.
Work in Keeping Company: painting of a young person with bangs in a bright pink patterned coat, against green and purple leafy backgrounds.
Work in Keeping Company: painting in purple and blue of a person in a striped towel eating, in a bedroom with large windows and a plant.
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