DC Gallery & Studio

About DC Gallery & Studio

Danielle Cartier
Cumberland County Connector

Danielle Cartier, artist and owner of DC Gallery in Millville, NJ, hosts SJCA"s Cumberland County Arts & Culture Connector from her studio & gallery. Alongside co-Connector Tania Polmales, she engages with local artists, organizations, and businesses, as well as mentorings other connector artists, to help strengthen Cumberland County's arts community.

Biography
Danielle Cartier is best known for her mural projects and large-scale, mixed-media paintings made from reconstructed materials, layered printmaking, and painting processes. Cartier has painted and installed over thirty grant-funded and community-based public art projects within South Jersey through collaboration with the public and various agencies. In addition to making public art, Danielle is an instructor at Rowan University, Stockton University, and Fleisher Art Memorial. Cartier is the founder and director of DC Gallery & Studio, an art gallery featuring contemporary art by emerging & established local artists & a retail space for local makers in the Glasstown Arts District of Millville, New Jersey.

Artist Statement
My artwork usually takes the form of murals and large scale, mixed media paintings that are made from reconstructed materials, recombined ephemera and layered printmaking and painting processes. I see myself as a mixer in terms of materials but also in terms of methodologies; I employ the found and felt as well as the improvisational and the strategic. My artwork stems from my interest in reconstructing images that circulate throughout contemporary society in order to form a version that is my own.