A standing cat with its inner spirit of a mythical cheetah or leopard, and its tail a ribbon-like semaphore cast up to greet the sky; a dog with its inner fox; an icon of a woman in a yoga position. Her sculptures are painterly, her paintings are sculptural, all jump with kinetic energy, vitality, seeming to inhabit a land of her own folktales, a gestalt not so much surreal as of shapeshifters carrying many inner beings of the animate world, where women have bird heads and pale blue roses live within sperm whales. Danielle Mailer creates her own visionary tribe of creatures, figures and motion. Because her work is joyous, people may not take it seriously, but it is complex, a bit like a modern millefleurs tapestry with shades of Gaudi’s trencadis, or even of Māori tattooing. Mailer makes paintings, archival ink prints, two-sided sculptures, jewelry. She uses mixed media, acrylic on … [Read more...] about DREAMING IN COLOR: DANIELLE MAILER RETURNS TO PROVINCETOWN AND BERTA WALKER GALLERY
