Danielle Nelson Mourning
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Eye of the Huntress is delighted to announce the launch of our most recent online viewing room featuring a selection of works from San Francisco based multimedia artist Danielle Mourning.
The artist’s work is an experiment in evolution and spiritual practice confronting viewers with the darker themes of humanity such as life and death, ancestry, and generational trauma. She uses her work as a means to process her own introspection and healing. The journey of this practice, both in its internal process and its external representation, resulted in the artist’s recent project Stay with Me, an installation that spanned her entire home in San Francisco. Each of the seven rooms dive into aspects of her experience as a woman and one's collective inherited history. Themes of sovereignty, vocalization, ancestors, childhood, sexuality, domesticity, rebirth, breaking and healing come forth.
We are proud to offer some of the larger pieces from that project that fans can now acquire. In this project Mourning has designed and made every single surface her own, from the wallpaper to large crystal light works, to the artworks themselves.
Mourning explores her own identity and place in her ancestral past through biographical self-portraits that were created in the homes of the artist's ancestors. They represent a meeting point within the psychic narrative; what science calls epigenetics and what mystics deem as a spiritual alignment with worlds seen and unseen. The product of this work are images in which echoes of her familial past have been superimposed upon the present, to forge an ethereal and haunting layer that challenges the passage of time and a shifting inheritance from our former female ancestors. Mourning’s poignantly intimate photographic work seamlessly melds vintage aesthetic with modern sensibilities and techniques as a means to confront themes of ancestry, identity, the role of modern women. The artist self-describes her practice as “ honoring the faded realm of memory and bearing witness to how it arises within the body. This is a language that has taken years to perceive and translate into art. My practice is intuitive, uncomfortable, reverent and redemptive. It is borne from a desire to delve into the psyche of fear as women and eventually unearth a world of compassion. If we know our real history, we are no longer bound to be ruled by it.”
“While I step into the homes and vestments that once belonged to my ancestors, I do not attempt to conceal the contemporary moment in which the photographs are made. By using color film and only myself as a model, I face the anachronism implicit to my process. It is clear that this is not the actual past we are viewing, that my invention and emulation evoke an imagined revisiting of one’s fiction and truth. The tension that exists in the space between document and fabrication are where these photographs reside.”
Danielle Nelson Mourning
Snow White I
40 x 50 in, 1 of 3
$8,000
Danielle Nelson Mourning
Snow White II
40 x 50 in, 1 of 3
$8,000
Danielle Nelson Mourning
Self-Portrait on Bed, Mahery, Ireland.
Archival Ink Print
46 x 59 in, 1 of 3
$10,000
Danielle Nelson Mourning
Sheet, Mahery, Ireland
Archival ink print
45 x 57 in, 3 of 3
$7,500
Danielle Nelson Mourning
Dome (Rishikesh, India)
2009
Archival Ink Print
59 x 75 in, 2 of 3
$9,500
Danielle Nelson Mourning
White Meditation (Rishikesh, India)
2009
Archival ink print
47 x 59 in, 3 of 3
$7,500
Danielle Nelson Mourning
Who Knows Keep Going, Holy Bible
2020
Bible from 1850, found in Roscoe MT, acrylic,
glow in the dark clown from artists childhood
10 x 7 x 3 in
$5,000 + applicable taxes
Danielle Nelson Mourning
Dear Mother, Do you love me? I love you.
Ink print on silk,
unprocessed cotton and chicken wire,
metal chain
38 x 48 in
$11,000
Danielle Nelson Mourning
Mama Rug
2019
Acrylic, house paint over natural fibers sealed with clear UV protectant
9 x 12 ft
$55,000
Danielle Nelson Mourning
The Feather Wall
2019-2020
Found pelican, hawk, seagull, turkey, and macaw feathers woven into 3 strips of painted burlap.
108 x 132 in
$60,000
Danielle Nelson Mourning
Death as Awakening
Archival ink print, UV Acrylic
45 in
Mounted to plexiglass with back frame $8,500; framed $10,300
Danielle Nelson Mourning
Lion in the Dogwood
2020
archival ink print, clear acrylic, mounted to plexiglass
33 in
$8,000
Danielle Nelson Mourning
Self-portrait as Mrs. Brown (red dress)
Archival ink print
41 x 51 in, 3 of 3
$7,500
Danielle Nelson Mourning
Kill The Snake
Archival ink print
55 x 71 in, 3 of 3
$9,000
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