Spanning 60 years of imaginative artistry, The Magical World of Joan Danziger at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. is the first career retrospective for Joan Danziger, who is actively producing art at the age of 91. Danziger has been a working artist since the 1960s. The retrospective traces her evolution from a surrealist painter to a multimedia artist who transforms her creations into three-dimensional sculptures. Over the decades, she evolved into a sculptor and glass artist who imbues her work with secret meanings from world religions, history and mythology.
For more than 60 years, Washington, D.C.-based artist Joan Danziger has beguiled audiences with her artworks born of mythology, imagination and fantasy. As an artist, she has metamorphosized from a painter to a sculptor to a glass artist. Danziger began her career as a surrealist painter and the dramatic hues in her paintings fed directly into painted sculptures – from vivid, surreal flowers in vases resting on pigmented patterned, handwoven carpets to large colourful figures of acrobats and musicians, to brilliantly hued figures riding bicycles with parrots.
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Image caption: Joan Danziger (b. 1934), “Amethyst Raven with Frog,” 2024. Glass and metal, 42 x 22 x 26 in.