Welcome to Metaphorical Realism Artist Dani Abbott
 

Dani Abbott is an Arizona artist working under the frame she names Metaphorical Realism: the conviction that material and story are the same language spoken at different volumes. She refuses to be reduced to a single medium, and her practice moves in two registers.

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The Material works are abstract, textural, and sculptural: the pieces that give a room its presence. Surface is the subject. Espresso and amber, daylight ivories, midnight and copper, emerald and deep woods, built in raised layers a viewer wants to touch, carrying real earth, mineral, and real gold leaf, with structural panels and resin finishes among the studio's range when a work calls for them.

 

The Sedona Earth collection carries real earth gathered from private Arizona land, sealed into every surface, with a vial of the same earth accompanying each acquisition. The material honesty is not a story told about the work. It is the work.

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The Narrative works are story-driven paintings, symbolic and cinematic, presented as immersive online exhibitions. Sands of Time, a ten-painting body, is the current flagship: a desert collection about time, memory, and what we carry, where the desert finally asked for the desert itself, and real ground went into the paint.

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Abbott sold her work for years before going professional in 2018. She spent seven years with a Scottsdale gallery and has been represented in Las Vegas, Maui, and Key West; she has painted live in galleries from Maui to Las Vegas and, over many seasons, at Scottsdale's Gold Palette ArtWalk. Her commissioned work has traveled to homes across the country, the East Coast to Alaska and International collectors. As she puts it, you never know where your art goes, or who's lives it will touch. Today, by choice, she works directly with collectors and the trade, to maintain a personal connection to not just the work but the people whose lives it touches.

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Abbott Atelier is the commission arm of the studio. Most art is chosen for a room; the Atelier works the other way. A piece begins with the space it will live in, its proportions, its light, the feeling the room is reaching for, and the work is composed to answer it. Commissions are made to spec for interior designers, art advisors, private collectors, and luxury properties, through a documented, white-glove process from consultation to installation, with formal provenance delivered with every work. Every work is an original. 

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