Danielle Orchard, Swimmers, 2025; Hand-Embellished, Signed and Numbered Limited Edition Print
Nodding to the great painters of the modern era, Danielle Orchard’s paintings often portray female nudes who replicate art historical tropes while performing contemporary leisure activities. These portraits direct attention towards subjects’ facial expressions and body language, as a way of encouraging viewers to consider their interiority. In the artist’s own words, “My work is a kind of autofiction that combines various art historical references—typically those involving familiar female narratives—with my own life experience. My aim is to continue a certain painting lineage on a formal level, while also reconsidering some of the one-dimensional depictions of women and their place in the world.” Orchard’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at galleries around the world, and can be found in the public collections of Marquez Art Projects, Miami, FL; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL; the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
A portrait of various figures relaxing in and beside a pool, Swimmers continues the artist’s longstanding interest in the subject of the bather. Orchard infuses the work with a sense of visual unsteadiness—both through the dizzying space of the composition itself but also narratively, via spilled wine glasses and the ambiguous posture of a character who may or may not have just tumbled into the water. Intended to depict the narrow margin between events that are staged and others that happen by accident, the painting also demonstrates an experimental approach to form and scale. While one figure’s waist is perfectly aligned with the pool’s curvature, an otherwise unseen character’s foot, surrounded by smoked cigarettes, seems disproportionate to her companions’ sizes and positions. For this limited edition series, Orchard will render each print unique by adding hand-drawn objects such as fruit, wine glasses, and beer bottles, with a variety of mediums that include wax crayons, watercolor pencils, and pastel.Swimmers, 2025
21 x 22 inches
Archival pigment print
Limited edition of 25 with 8 AP + 1 PP
Hand-embellished, signed and numbered by the artist
$2,850
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