Jeff Danley

Jeff Danley is a self-taught painter, former touring drummer and arts mentor in Nashville, TN.  He is collected extensively in private collections and has been featured in New American Paintings magazine. Danley’s expressive figurative work interprets the minute language of the human body as it moves through time and place. His solitary female figures twist and turn, carrying tension and weight in a close environment deceivingly subdued by a soft, simple palette. These figures, executed with exquisite attention to detail, are often arranged with the face slightly obscured or the edges of the canvas crowding the body; a feeling that is simultaneously claustrophobic and oddly freeing. 

STATEMENT

I have always been interested in the language of the body- what is being expressed by posture and movement, as well as the marks of time on the body itself. In response to my own physical malformation (I was born without a right hand), I am acutely aware of such ideals as beauty, perfection and symmetry in relation to the human figure. Through intense observation of the model, I slowly build up many layers of paint to create a material form, giving the inert pigment the illusion of a flesh and blood presence.

RESUME

   Selected Exhibitions

     2019  A 39 Year Retrospective, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tn

2018 Altered Reality, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tn.

2016 Local Fare, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tn.

     2016 Storytellers, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tn.

     2014 Solo Show, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tn.

     2014 LA Art Fair, Los Angeles, Ca.

     2013 LA Art Fair, Los Angeles, Ca.

     2012 LA Art Fair, Los Angeles, Ca.

     2012 Summer Selections, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tn.

     2011 FADA Los Angeles Art Show, Los Angeles, Ca.

     2011 Local Produce, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tn.   

     2011 Exchange, Tanner Hill Gallery, Chattanooga, Tn.

     2010 Manifold: the body divided, Austin Peay University, Clarksville, Tn.

     2009  FADA Los Angeles Art Show, Los Angeles, Ca.

     2007 More Art, Less Filler, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tn.

     2007 Artists in Heat, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tn.

     2007 AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY

     2006 Art Chicago, Chicago, Il.

     2006  Summer Salon, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tn.

     2005 AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY

     2005 Summer Sustenance, Group Show, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

     2005 San Francisco International Art Exhibition, San Francisco, Ca.

     2004 Small Packages Group Show, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tn.

     2004 Contemporary Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY

     2004 San Francisco International Art Exhibition, San Francisco, Ca.

     2003 Small Packages Group Show, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tn.

     2003 Transforming the Body, Watkins College of Art, Nashville, Tn.

     2003 Contemporary Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY

     2003 San Francisco International Art Exhibition, San Francisco, Ca.

     2002 Artist's Sketches Group Show, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tn. 

     2001 New Kids, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tn.

     2000 Small Packages Group Show, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tn.      

     1999 Small Packages Group Show, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tn.

     1996 Temporary Contemporary Annual Retrospective, Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, Tn.

     1995 Temporary Contemporary Solo Show, Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, Tn.

     1995 Book Arts, AKA Gallery, Nashville, Tn.

     1995 Texas National Juried Show, Stephen F. Austin University

     1995 Festivale '95 Juried Show, Greenville, SC

     1994 Red Clay Survey, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Al.

     1994 Self Portrait Invitational, Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, Tn.

     1993 About Face Self Portrait Show, Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, Tn.

     1992 Two Way Stretch Group Show, AKA Gallery, Nashville, Tn.

Selected Bibliography

     2012 Nashville Arts Magazine, September issue, “Jeff Danley Figures it Out,” p.41-44 (article and reproductions)

     2012 Nashville Arts Magazine, June issue, Cover & p.20 (reproductions)

     2011 The Tennessean, July 31, Living Section (reproduction)

     2010  Manifold: the body divided,  Exhibition Catalog, p. 70 & 71 (reproductions)

     2010  Oxford American, 2010 Issue 68, p. 68 (reproduction)

     2009 Oranges and Sardines, April 2009, p. 42-47

     2007  Oxford American, 2007 Issue 57, p. 50 (reproduction)

     2001 The Tennessean, June 17, Life magazine, Drawing a Crowd, p.19-22

     2001 New American Paintings, #34, p.46-49

     1995 Texas National 95 Exhibition Catalog, p. 11 (reproduction)

     1995 The Tennessean, December 10,  Arts Spotlight,  p. 13

     1995 Nashville Business Journal, August 7,  Art Hits the Books, p.13

     1994 Red Clay Survey, Huntsville Museum of Art, catalog, p.24 (reproduction)

     Other Experience

     2010-Present Oasis Center, Volunteer Art Instructor

     2005 Frist Museum Avant Garde Group, Studio visit and talk

     2001  Gallery Talk, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tn.

     1995 Independent Study, Italy

     1993  Cheekwood Museum Honorarium, Instructor, Oasis Center Painting Class