Installation view, Danielle Klebes, Keeping Company

Please join us for an artist talk with Danielle Klebes on March 22, at 5pm in the NARS Project Space.

Danielle Klebes will discuss her solo exhibition Keeping Company.

Keeping Company explores the complexities of queer identity and its relationship to the intimate spaces we occupy. Through the use of vibrant yet understated oil paintings, the exhibit showcases individuals, largely members of the artist’s queer community, who are lost in thought in den-like environments. The interiors were inspired by a furnished apartment rented from a Hemingway-type, but despite the borrowed nature of the space, the figures are comfortable enough to appear vulnerable. Keeping Company challenges conventional ideas of domesticity and ownership.

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Danielle Klebes lives and works at Wassaic Project in Wassaic, NY. Danielle has exhibited in notable galleries and museums throughout the United States, Europe, and Canada. These include Midnight Adventure Club (2022), a solo show at AVA Gallery in Lebanon, NH, House Fire House Party (2020), a solo show at Installation Space in North Adams, MA, Fifty (2022), a group show at MoCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL, Summer (2022), a group show at Galleri Christoffer Egelund in Copenhagen, Denmark, Portraiture Today (2021), a group show at the Springfield Museums, Springfield, MA, and Confluence of Tongues (2021), a group show at Grove Collective in London, UK. Danielle received her MFA in Visual Arts from Lesley University College of Art and Design in Cambridge, MA, in 2017.