Extrawurst

Solo Exhibition:

Daniel Bruttig

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 9, 5-7pm

Exhibition: September 9 – October 8, 2023

MARQUEE PROJECTS is thrilled to present Extrawurst, our second solo exhibition of paintings by artist Daniel Bruttig. An opening reception will be held on Saturday September 9, from 5-7pm.

Daniel Bruttig has always worked in a wide variety of materials, challenging the viewer to find     the lines between high and low art, and between painting and sculpture. His work references a deep knowledge of art history, but also strongly recalls his Midwestern upbringing surrounded      by colloquial craft materials – and for this exhibition he focuses and deepens his interest in   painting with the use of color association and the mark. Riffing on the gestural work of great abstract expressionists like William De Kooning, Cy Twombly and Joan Mitchell, these paintings are composed of hot glue mixed with melted wax crayons, which Bruttig squeegees around the  canvas until they serendipitously begin to suggest imagery and hints of text.

And, just in time to celebrate the end of summer, the utterly unique whipped-cream, white-space fantasias he ultimately produces revel in giddy, multicolored markings of confetti and fiesta,   thickly impastoed with the gleeful abandon of a five-year-old allowed to finger-paint his own birthday cake icing. The paintings have titles that include “Nachos,” “Taffy Smear,” and “Cherry Mint Banana Smoothie,” and each canvas conjures a mini vacation: these are joyful, delectable  edibles for the eye.

Daniel Bruttig (born 1975, Milwaukee, WI) received a BFA from the University of Illinois at    Chicago in 2001, and his MFA from the Department of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University in 2010. His work has appeared in group and solo exhibitions in New York, Los  Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, and Milwaukee; and at the Renaissance Society of the University       of Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center, and Evanston Art Center. He is included in collections in Moscow, Twitter New York, San Diego, Chicago, Madison, Milwaukee, and other locales. In   2009, Bruttig received the Dedalus Foundation nomination; and, in 2010, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging MFA nomination. Bruttig lives and works in Chicago, IL.