Background
Tegeder was born in Peekskill, New New York
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Dannielle Tegeder
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She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the State University of New York at Purchase, and an Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from The Art Institute of Chicago.
Career
She lives in Brooklyn, New York and maintains a studio at The Elizabeth Foundation in Times Square, Manhattan. Tegeder’s work employs strategies connected to Post-Minimalism and Twentieth-Century abstraction, often utilizing mathematical, architectural or demographic data to produce an ever-evolving visual vocabulary. Her work is influenced by the mechanical drawings she observed as a child growing up in a family of steam fitters.
Tegeder"s work is mainly abstract paintings and drawings and in recent years has expanded to include installation, wall drawings, and sound.
She has had solo gallery exhibitions, both nationally and internationally in Paris, Houston, Los Angeles, Berlin, Chicago, and New New York She has participated in numerous group exhibitions at various museums such as PS1/MoMA, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
She has been the recipient of many residencies and grants, including Yaddo, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, SmackMellon Studio Program, and the Marie Walsh Sharpe Studio Fellowship. In 2011, she was an artist in residence on Governor"s Island as part of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council"s Swing Space program
She has been a visiting artist at Cornell University, RISD, Pratt Institute, San Francisco Art Institute, Princeton University, Purchase College and others
She is currently an Associate Professor at Lehman College in the City University of New New York In 2013 Tegeder will have her first major museum survey at the Wellin Museum of Art, at Hamilton College. A fully illustrated hardcover catalog will accompany the exhibition with essays by Barry Schwabsky, and Claire Gilman, the curator from the Drawing Center in New York City.
