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Artist and graphic designer Danielle Foushee lives in Seattle, Washington. She spends a lot of time working and playing in Los Angeles, California where she lived for ten years. She loves to compare the cultural qualities of all the places she’s lived including Grand Junction, Colorado; Logan, Utah; Detroit, Michigan; Raleigh, North Carolina; and Birmingham, Alabama. It is this rich diversity of the American experience that gives Danielle’s work its unique blend of contradictory qualities — wilderness vs. civilization, artifice vs. nature, silence vs. language, spirit vs. science, and tradition vs. progress.
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Artist and graphic designer Danielle Foushee lives in Seattle, Washington. She spends a lot of time working and playing in Los Angeles, California where she lived for ten years. She loves to compare the cultural qualities of all the places she’s lived including Grand Junction, Colorado; Logan, Utah; Detroit, Michigan; Raleigh, North Carolina; and Birmingham, Alabama. It is this rich diversity of the American experience that gives Danielle’s work its unique blend of contradictory qualities — wilderness vs. civilization, artifice vs. nature, silence vs. language, spirit vs. science, and tradition vs. progress.
Danielle knew she wanted to work as an artist from childhood. She attended the North Carolina School of the Arts (now known as University of North Carolina School of the Arts) and focused on Visual Arts. She went on to receive a Bachelor of Environmental Design in Graphic Design at North Carolina State University’s prestigious College of Design, and then received her MFA in 2d Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She works as a graphic designer for a variety of clients including FIDM/Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, BLM/Bureau of Land Management, MOCA/Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Chronicle Books, and The Boston Conservatory, among others. Her graphic design work has won numerous awards and has been published nationally and internationally. She has also taught college-level art and design courses at Art Center College of Design, Otis College of Art & Design, UCLA, USC, Utah State University, and Mesa State College.
After successfully working for a number of years as a professional graphic designer, the artificiality of creating computer-generated designs gave way to a necessary return to more tactile processes. So in 2008, Ms. Foushee began to pursue a serious painting and mixed-media practice in addition to her digital graphic work. Her work has been exhibited around the country, most recently in the shows Word & Image at The Art Center in Highland Park, Illinois, Sun Worshipers & Junk Yard Dogs at the Western Colorado Center for the Arts, and The Process of Peace at Towson Arts Collective in Maryland. Her work was recently purchased for the Mesa County (Colorado) Public Libraries Permanent Collection, and is on view at the Fruita Branch. Her first solo show is currently on display at the Grand Junction City Hall in Colorado, and she is looking forward to another upcoming solo show with City of Reno in Nevada this summer.
Read a personal interview with Danielle Foushée at CranbrookDesign.com.
