My maquette of Nos Nymphéas is on view in The Arts Club of Chicago’s 91st Exhibition of Visual Artist Members. The exhibition runs January 23 - February 21, 2024. The gallery, located at 201 E Ontario, is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are:

Tuesday-Friday:  11:00 AM - 6:00 PM and Saturday: 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM 

The Arts Club has an evening gathering place too, The Drawing Room, that is open to members and guests Tuesday-Friday from 5 PM. Join a gathering Thursday, January 25 from 5 PM. Watch this space or ask to be added to our email list to receive invitations for additional gatherings throughout the exhibition. I am eager to share and discuss this project, my vision for a walk-in painting, which I plan to open in Chicago this summer. Let’s schedule a time to view and discuss it together, and how you or your organization can participate.  . 

About the Maquette

Cordelia Belloc Lowndes, architectural designer and I have been working together to design and build Nos Nymphéas in miniature, so that I might share it at The Arts Club of Chicago’s 91st Exhibition of Visual Artist Members. The maquette is composed of a recent body of paintings (2021-24), photographed, then printed with a giclée process, scaled down from 5 feet high x 5 - 8.5 feet wide to 5 inches high, 5 - 8.5 inches wide, then mounted into curved walls, as though to embrace the viewer. The environment includes furniture on which the viewer might rest.

Materials: Photographic prints of recent (2021-4) paintings by Danielle Klinenberg, with cochineal, murex, lapis lazuli, Majorelle blue, indigo, Moroccan dye, mica and African lip stain and watercolor finished with a UV protectant on paper, various adhesives, clay, wood, metal, plaster, velvet, found Great Lakes rocks, MDF and plexiglass.

Special thanks to: Bill Dougherty, Cesar Luevano, Christian and Halyle at Loupe Printing, Erin Graft Mazzeffi at Nimble Bee, Noah Karapanagiotidis, Adam Mikos and Mia Morettini at The Arts Club of Chicago.