Danielle Blanding was born in Stockbridge, Georgia in 1997. Blanding graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design, with a Bachelor’s in Fine Art in March 2020. Blanding’s artistic practice is evolving through an exploration focused on the fear of cause and effect. Blanding does not shy away from topics such as human disgust in her works, even touching upon deformity, through organic forms that spill and morph on painted canvas. The figures in her work are a beguiling combination of such natural beauty and deformity, that create ambiguous portraits that might be of one’s internal self image, than one’s mirror image. Blanding has created a world of characters that embrace their own faults, the uglier side of human nature, and they naturally embrace the unknown. In Blanding’s unusual canvases, not for the faint of heart, we come to see ‘deformity’ in the sense of ‘de-’ and ‘form’ in a new light.
