Deborah Dancy

Deborah Dancy is a multi-media abstract artist, whose paintings, drawings, digital photography, and sculptural objects examine and mine abstraction’s potential to move across mediums and materials to explore the concepts of subtly and confrontation. Undercurrents of nuance and tension mark Dancy’s work, as if something is poised to happen. Her paintings and drawings are constructed by tangential linear demarcations and erasures; abutting shapes and colors are inserted to provoke, entice, and disrupt. Sensuous linear gestures glide across the surface until abruptly they collide with the unexpected, creating densely painted fields and minimally suggested forms. Dancy’s work operates in the recognition that moments, meanderings, accidents and process operate best when the beautiful and the disconcerting are combined.  In her photography as well as her sculptures, one finds images, cobbled bricolage of detritus, found and fabricated objects, playful yet pointed exist as simultaneously humorous and grotesque.