Launch Gallery is proud to present solo exhibitions by Danielle Eubank and Beth Davila Waldman, whose work reflects on the passage of time through the changing conditions of our natural world and the societies we inhabit. As artists and humanitarians, they have devoted their practices to observing the beauty and fragility of the land, oceans, and communities that sustain us. Their paintings and mixed media works bear witness to a world in transition, documenting the recent past and the present while inviting viewers to consider an increasingly uncertain future.

Danielle Eubank presents Shape of water, a new series of paintings that continues her personal relationship to the world’s waterways. In this series, her long-standing, nuanced relationship offers the Pacific Ocean as both the subject and collaborator. This body of work reflects Danielle’s increasing use of the texture of paint to evoke wateriness, collaborating with the ocean and the oil paint to create something singular.

My work is about how water unifies us. Human history is intrinsically dependent on water and I want to invigorate people’s passion for it. If people observe and think about water, they will feel more motivated to protect it.

Aesthetically, I am looking for the tipping point between the conceptual and visible to create an emotive response. I consider forms created by ripples, oil slicks, or refuse a foundation for deconstruction. I create patterns within patterns, representing vertical stacks of rhythms in each painting.

Ultimately, my work celebrates this elemental subject and focuses attention on it, sharing my ardor for both water and painting.

(D.E)

Danielle Eubank explores the relationship between abstraction and realism through painting water. She is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. Eubank created One Artist Five Oceans, a 20-year project wherein she sailed and painted the waters of every ocean on Earth to raise climate awareness.

Eubank is the Expedition Artist for the Phoenicia ship expedition, a replica 600BCE ship that circumnavigated Africa. As Expedition Artist aboard the UNESCO approved Borobudur Ship Expedition she traveled with the replica 8th century expedition from Indonesia to Ghana. Eubank has sailed to Antarctica and aboard a barquentine tall ship to the northernmost settlement on Earth.

She was a Creative Climate Award nominee and the awardee of the WCA/United Nations Program Honor Roll Award. Eubank has spoken in Japan, Korea, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Mexico, the United States, Spain, Syria and Italy, as well as painting the Henley Royal Regatta. A film documentary about her work, Mozambique VI, premiered at the Newport Beach Film Festival.