Danielle Rante

Rante works in drawing, painting, printing, paper cutting, installations and tableaus of small organic objects. Sourcing material directly from the environments she visits, Rante’s practice incorporates site-specific field research into geographical happenings, direct interaction with the landscape and its inhabitants, and meditative mark-making. Akin to a botanist collecting live plant specimens in the wild, or an astronomist mapping locations beyond the earth’s atmosphere, Rante is interested in the meeting place between the physical environment we encounter and the narratives of a place. She explores our cultural subjectivity in relation to historical events or shifts in the landscape, investigating collective and personal speculation. 
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Danielle lives and works in Dayton, Ohio. She is currently an Associate  Professor of Printmaking and Drawing at Wright State University. She received her M.F.A. in printmaking from the University of Iowa in 2006. Her work is held in public and private collections worldwide.

The Wandering Hill Drawing Series, 2011 

The Wandering Hill Drawing Series  is  made up  of 28 drawings with paper cut installation.  Each drawing is 8 h.  x 10 inches  gouache and ink on Okawara paper.