{"id":23013,"date":"2023-07-06T08:18:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=23013"},"modified":"2023-07-08T06:23:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T10:23:26","slug":"duennebier-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2023\/07\/06\/duennebier-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicole Duennebier\u2019s Sumptuous, Ominous Still-Lifes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Nicole Duennebier\u2019s exhibition \u201cTender Burden,\u201d at 13 Forest gallery<\/a> in Arlington from May 20 to July 14, 2023, she finds inspiration in the \u201cmemorial flowers and the trinkets we leave behind to commemorate other people\u2019s lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Malden artist paints sumptuous still-lifes of flowers and wreaths and moths and gray fish. She uses the term \u201cPronkstilleven,\u201d a 17th century Dutch term for ostentatious, ornate still-lifes, in one of her titles\u2014signaling the inspiration she\u2019s been drawing from the Dutch \u201cold masters.\u201d And perhaps as well those paintings\u2019 concerns with ravishing beauty as well as lessons about the transitoriness of life, the ever presence of death and decay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nicole Duennebier, “Tent Worm Bouquet,” acrylic on panel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Duennebier seasons all the beauty with ominous undercurrents. Maybe there are contemporary environmental parables encoded here with Duennebier\u2019s addition of tent caterpillars. A dazzling yellow speckled, blue mob of tent caterpillars swarm underneath a bouquet of pink and white blossoms covered with webs in \u201cTent Worm Bouquet\u201d and cluster around flowers and blue sculptures in \u201cTent Worm with Blue Sculpture.\u201d The insects can sometimes ravage forests by ravenously devouring of leaves and needles. In all their beauty is danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2022 The Haunting Beauty Of Nicole Duennebier\u2019s Flower Grotto Paintings<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Caitlin and Nicole Duennebier\u2019s Big Furry Dead Monster<\/a>
\u2022 Nicole Duennebier’s Sumptuous Paintings Evoke The Old Masters\u2014If They Painted Oozing Piles Of Meat<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nicole Duennebier’s exhibition “Tender Burden” at 13Forest Gallery, Arlington, May 20, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nicole Duennebier, “Tent Worm with Blue Sculpture,” acrylic on panel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nicole Duennebier, “Alcove Diptych with Scintillating Fish (2),” acrylic on panel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nicole Duennebier at her exhibition “Tender Burden” at 13Forest Gallery, Arlington, May 20, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nicole Duennebier, “Vanitas with Weedy Arch,” acrylic on panel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nicole Duennebier, “Tent Worm Bouquet,” acrylic on panel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nicole Duennebier, “Study of the Little Children,” acrylic on panel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nicole Duennebier, “Still Life with Wreath and Blue Sculpture,” acrylic on panel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nicole Duennebier’s exhibition “Tender Burden” at 13Forest Gallery, Arlington, May 20, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nicole Duennebier, “Pronkstilleven with Mutated Daisies,” acrylic on panel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nicole Duennebier, “Old Joy (3),” acrylic on panel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nicole Duennebier, “Old Joy (2),” acrylic on panel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nicole Duennebier, “Old Joy (1),” acrylic on panel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nicole Duennebier’s exhibition “Tender Burden” at 13Forest Gallery, Arlington, May 20, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nicole Duennebier, “Jelly Grotto,” acrylic on panel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nicole Duennebier, “Flower Effigy (2),” acrylic on panel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nicole Duennebier, “Flower Effigy (1),” acrylic on panel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Nicole Duennebier\u2019s exhibition \u201cTender Burden,\u201d at 13 Forest gallery in Arlington from May 20 to July 14, 2023, she finds inspiration in the \u201cmemorial flowers and the trinkets we leave behind to commemorate other people\u2019s lives.\u201d The Malden artist paints sumptuous still-lifes of flowers and wreaths and moths and gray fish. She uses the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[362,846],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23013"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23013"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23400,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23013\/revisions\/23400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}