Old Joy - a conversation with Nicole Duennebier

Join us on Saturday, June 24 from 4-6 pm for a conversation with Nicole Duennebier about her latest body of work, on view in her solo show Tender Burden.

Since her captivating 2021 solo show Floral Hex, Duennebier’s paintings have been consumed by increasingly ostentatious floral displays. While flowers were a new subject matter for Duennebier in Floral Hex, and one she was initially reluctant to pursue, with Tender Burden she has achieved a confident command of her floral subjects. In this exhibition Duennebier revisits the theme of memorial flowers and the trinkets we leave behind to commemorate other people’s lives.

For three of the paintings in Tender Burden, Duennebier made the unusual choice of repurposing some of her previous work. Reflecting on these earlier paintings, Duennebier could see her old preoccupations: a focus on technical skill and recreating images from photographs or models rather than trusting her own interpretive vision. These reworked paintings serve as a self-contained retrospective that brings a body of Duennebier’s more rigidly accurate earlier work into direct conversation with her assured and expansive floral work of today.

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