Danielle Andress in an assistant professor in the Fibers and Materials Studies Department. Her work focuses on contemporary identity politics as mediated through popular culture and gendered craft and primarily takes the form of woven cloth. She previously taught at the California College of the Arts. Danielle earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008 and her MFA from the California College of the Arts in 2017.
Weaving is dead. It is not dead like Delaroche declared painting dead. It is dead like taxis are dead. There are easier, cheaper, and more reliable ways of getting to where you need to be. It is an ancient mode of production, inefficient and difficult. Weaving is a dead way or working but not a dead way of thinking. It is linear and finite both in theory and format. The end product is always an object – a collective of many individual actors. Weaving is not surface. It is whole. It is tangible labor – lone threads forced together through tension to create something altogether new. The uninitiated use blind clichés like “organized chaos” to describe this methodology. That is another lie. Weaving is planned, meticulous, and intentional. It is not about forcing order onto things; it is about building new systems that accommodate for everything. This beautiful, mortal way of working inevitably ends with the death of the warp. http://www.danielleandress.com
- California College of the Arts, MFA
- Rhode Island School of Design, BFA
Assistant Professor art SAIC Fiber and Material Studies http://www.saic.edu
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