Danica Maier is an American born artist and academic currently living and working between Nottingham, Lincolnshire and beyond. Her practice focuses on the unrepeating repeat, material processes, transposition, conflating expectations, and how an audience looks/listens; as well as the dialogical nature of collaborative projects that foster independent artwork alongside wider group outcomes. Maier’s work uses drawing, site-specific installations, and objects to explore expectations while using subtle slippages to transgress propriety.
Further areas of enquiry include – an exploration of processes (making) through other mediums and the connection to transposition; historical objects re-interrupted and contemporarily re-created; intertextuality of artistic processes as well as within writing/words; words and pattern which sit on the intersection of language and visuals; autobiographical narratives explored through the lens of other sources and staring points; and a dialogical nature of collaborative projects which enable individual practice research to occur.
Danica has been a practising artist since 1995, with an international research profile involving exhibition, publication, performance and guest lecturing. Recent exhibitions and live events include: Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity at Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, York Concerts, The Space, Nottingham Contemporary and Prix Annelie de Man, Orgalpark, Amsterdam; Bummock: Tennyson Research Centre at The Hub: A National Centre for Craft and Design, Sleaford and The Collection Museum, Lincoln; Associated Thoughts on Line, as part of the Convocation: On Expanded Language – Based Practices within the Research Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale; re-turning at AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent.
Additional and alongside her independent practice Danica often works within collaborative frameworks in which she is interested in the balance between giving equivalent priority to both the personal and shared interests. She is co-lead with artist Andrew Bracey on a long-term artistic research project Bummock: New Artistic Responses to Unseen Parts of the Archive. (www.bummock.org). Danica and composer Dr. Martin Scheuregger are currently working on an ongoing ACE funded project Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity. She is also part of the artist group Returns with Andrew Brown, Joanne Lee and Christine Stevens.
Danica Maier undertook a BFA in painting from Arcadia University, Philadelphia, during which she spent a year studying abroad at Glasgow School of Art, Scotland. She achieved an MFA in Painting from the University of Delaware, USA, and an MA in Textile as a fine art practice from Goldsmiths College, London. She is an Associate Professor in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University.
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