November 16–December 16, 2023
Opening reception: Thursday, Nov. 16, 7-10pm
Viewing hours: Fridays and Saturdays, 12–5pm, or by appointment. Open by appointment only on Thanksgiving weekend.
Day & Night Projects is proud to present artist, filmmaker, and actor Danielle Deadwyler’s new multidisciplinary exhibition work me by night/or e b dark. Transmuting Black feminist thought with black hole theory leads to a question—what is identity to the emptied or missing figure? A sort of self-portrait approaches this uncharted territory through casts and molds of the artist’s teeth, glinting shiny against the blacked-out gallery. The projected video Quiver (tease) pursues the black hole, an eternal zoom through hyperspace and dream imagery. Two smaller videos explore Blackness as a site for erotic discovery, on a knife’s edge. With these and other works, Deadwyler darts into the darkness—gnashing and grinning into the unknown.
work me by night / or e b dark will open with a free, public reception on Thursday, Nov. 16, 7–10pm. Viewing hours are Fridays and Saturdays,12–5pm, or by appointment. The gallery will be open by appointment only on Thanksgiving weekend.
For more information on work me by night / or e b dark, the artist, or press inquiries, please contact Steven L. Anderson at info@daynightprojects.art or call 404-623-7289.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Danielle Deadwyler (she/her/they) is an American born multidisciplinary performance artist, filmmaker, and actor. Her works blur the lines of labor as practice and performance through a race/gender/sexuality/historical lens. Dance, self-portraiture and seriality choreograph an entryway for complicating the spiritual and self-making. The subjectivity of black women is central to her life and work, critically informed through a personal and artistic rearing amongst a Southern milieu.
Deadwyler’s award winning experimental film and performance art work has been presented at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport; Atlanta Film Festival; New Orleans Film Festival; Cucalorus Film Festival; Oxford Film Fest; and the Atlanta Biennial. She has exhibited with CUE Art Foundation, MAMBU BADU collective, Mint Gallery, Whitespace Gallery, The Luminary, Atlanta Contemporary Museum, Spelman College’s Museum of Fine Art Black Box Series, among others. Numerous grants have supported Deadwyler’s works, including IDEA CAPITAL, ELEVATE Atlanta, Living Walls, Synchronicity Theatre, WonderRoot Walthall Fellowship, and Artadia. She is a former Atlanta Film Festival Filmmaker-in-Residence, MINT Gallery Leap Year Fellowship Recipient, Franklin Furnace recipient, and a 2021 Princess Grace Award Winner.
