Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home
Fredericks & Freiser is pleased to announce Evening All Day, Danielle Roberts’ first solo exhibition in New York. In her moody and atmospheric paintings, Roberts explores the various psychological states brought on by her generation’s societal instability. Roberts’ settings – strip mall parking lots, living room sofas, city rooftops, and outdoor parks – are familiar to wide audiences. Yet, when rendered with otherworldly color and dramatic chiaroscuro, they feel transitory and strange. Unstable emotions are communicated through uncanny lighting –both phenomenal and foreboding– and fragmented coloration that coalesces differently across canvases. Some figures are made up of geometric patches of hues that are visually delineated from each other. In contrast, other bodies are made up of a similar patchwork of…