Denise Townsend is an interdisciplinary artist. She writes: “The tenuous strength and fragility of matter and emotion and their inherent transformative nature lie central to my work. Sensate and emotive tracings imprint the surface of canvas or clay, providing avenues for the translation of experience originating in the psyche, soma, or exchange. I make a work in order to raze it, to see what lies beneath or behind, to investigate the shadow surface and to recreate new form through what is revealed inside an often tumultuous dialogue...enchanted by the alchemical forces that transform a thing into something new. Offering a whisper of the intensity of subtle phenomenon and transient internal landscapes, my work attempts to create a field of resonance echoing the refuge of the pregnant still point that lies within the fissure of chaos, flux, and fragmented form.”

Townsend’s work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in the United States, Europe, and South America. She was born in Chicago, Illinois, and lives and works in Boulder, Colorado.

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