Alyssa Danna

Alyssa Danna

Mar 7–Jun 8, 2025

Alyssa Danna’s solo exhibition will feature a new installation of sculptural and immersive work. Her work draws influence from both the natural and the artificial, and human attempts to refabricate and mimic self-contain systems observed in nature. Danna’s work encompasses themes of attraction and repulsion through her multifaceted uses of material and color. With environments, landscapes, found object assemblages, and sculptures she creates work that awes and perplexes, creating a push and pull between a dream space and nightmare as we try to understand the relationships between materials and objects.

Her process relies on her impulse to collect–from ceramic figurines to orchids to palm fronds–and as various collections accumulate, they become both inspiration and material for her sculptural installations. Currently in her studio she is researching human and fauna’s attraction to color considering how smell and aroma might enter her work. Danna’s new installation work at the Contemporary will focus on multisensory experience, aim to use more natural material, and she will complete her first, multi-tiered suspended mobile.

Biography

Alyssa Danna was born in Beaumont, Texas and raised in rural LaBelle. She holds a BFA in Painting from Lamar University, Beaumont, TX and a MFA in Sculpture from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Her installations have been commissioned by and exhibited throughout Texas including with French and Michigan, the McNay Art Museum, K Space Contemporary, and more. Her career in museums and galleries and as a landscape designer serve as vehicles to explores her passions for visual art and ecology and influence her artistic practice.