{"id":41798,"date":"2025-10-28T11:38:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceramicsnow.org\/?p=41798"},"modified":"2025-10-28T11:38:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:38:53","slug":"danielle-omalley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ceramicsnow.org\/artists\/danielle-omalley\/","title":{"rendered":"Danielle O\u2019Malley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Danielle O\u2019Malley<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Danielle O\u2019Malley is a Montana-based sculptor whose hand-built, large-scale ceramic work increase people\u2019s environmental awareness. O\u2019Malley received her MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth in May 2021. In addition to an active studio practice; O\u2019Malley teaches, exhibits nationally, and serves her community as Executive Director for the Art Mobile of Montana and Director for Montana Clay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O\u2019Malley\u2019s work is monumental in both scale and symbolic message, and inventive in supportive materials (crocheted plastic bags; up-cycled fabric; natural dyes). Her surprising combinations of scavenged materials, re-contextualized via textile processes, in concert with her earthen forms are startling in scale so viewers feel an urgency about the eco-crisis. O\u2019Malley\u2019s forms are influenced by landscapes (exemplifying nature\u2019s magnitude) and industrial objects (indicative of warning) she observes daily: traps, grids; smoke stacks; rolling prairie-scapes, endless water-scapes, vast mountain-scapes. The confrontational feeling of larger-than-life work in one\u2019s space is unavoidable and instrumental in underscoring concepts of environmental concern and warning. Exaggerated scale increases artwork\u2019s significance though unexpected surprise and challenges the viewer as they experience altered scales of familiar forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most recently, O\u2019Malley was juried into two NCECA Annual exhibitions (exhibited at the Crocker Museum of Art and the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art) and is a part of the Montana Museum of Modern Art and Culture\u2019s inaugural 19 under 39 emerging artist exhibition. She was interviewed on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler; Not Real Art Podcast; recognized and chosen for publication by: Ceramics Monthly; The Surface Design Association Quarterly Journal; The NCECA Annual Journal; and The Studio Potter Journal. She has received multiple local; state; and national grants. Her work is in permanent collections at the Northwest Art Gallery, the Taoxichuan Art Center, and numerous private collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Visit Danielle O\u2019Malley\u2019s website<\/a> and Instagram page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Selected works, 2021-2024<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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