Danielle Austen's Echoing Cascades Gallery Talk Wednesday, April 6, Free and Open to the Public

The Monmouth Museum’s New Jersey Emerging Artists Series will present Danielle Austen, an award-winning fine art photographer specializing in intimate portraits of the environment, on March 18, 2016. Austen’s Gallery Talk will be held on April 6th from 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM, and is Free and Open to the Public.

“Art is everywhere, waiting to be revealed. If one takes the time to look, they begin to truly see amazing wonders.” Said Austen. The work captures the many tranquil aspects of her journeys that are often missed by the casual observer. Her intimate portraits of the environment document what many may see as ordinary and expose the extraordinary.

Danielle received her BFA from Cornell University and worked as a graphic designer for seven years before attending the master’s program at the Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, in photojournalism.

Working for newspapers and magazines, her editorial work has been published locally, regionally and nationally, including “Life’s, The Year in Pictures.” Returning to her fine art roots, she has combined her skills and training and has participated in over three dozen national and international juried exhibits.

This past year she was an Artist-in-Residence at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and returned for a second time to Acadia National Park last fall. She previously did other residencies at the Everglades National Park and a Fellowship recipient at the Vermont Studio Center.

Danielle has won awards both in her photojournalism and fine art work.
In 2013, Danielle was a national winner of Canon’s “Project Imaginat10n”
photo competition with Director Ron Howard. Celebrity director, Biz Stone, the co-founder of Twitter, chose her winning image to help inspire his short film, “Evermore” which premiered October 2013 in NYC.

In August 2014, she was the co-creator and curator of the“NJ350 Elements” exhibit. In celebration of New Jersey’s 350th anniversary, this unique juried photography exhibit was created to represent the environment within the environment.

“I have always been drawn to nature, as it is where I find my peace, specifically around the mystical element of water, the driving force of all nature. It is flexible and yielding, yet can penetrate through the mountains and earth. It can be so calming, yet so destructive. I have been investigating the movement of water, exploring the interplay of light, patterns and tones, and the abstract imagery it creates. The effects can be surreal, and even ethereal. I believer these images are pathways into an unexpected depth of the natural world.” Austen stated.

During the development of this photographic series Echoing Cascades Austen was struck by a correlation found between the color and black and white images she was creating. Pairing the vibrancy of color with the drama provided by the black and white elements, uncovers a dynamic facet to the images that she continues to explore.

The Monmouth Museum, founded in 1963 as a Museum of Ideas, presents changing art, history and science exhibitions to educate and entertain while providing a destination for creative expression and life-long learning to the diverse community it serves.

Imaginative and informative changing exhibitions in the Main Gallery and Nilson Gallery present a wide variety of art in all media. The Museum’s New Jersey Emerging Artists Series in the Nilson Gallery features six solo exhibitions each year by NJ artists.

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