🌸Danielle Rackowski🌸
Gallery Director of Self Portraits On Fire
🌸Portfolio🌸
Self-Portrait Photo Artist
🌸About🌸
Danielle Rackowski is a Self-Portrait Photo Artist based in New Jersey. She uses digital photography and digital photo manipulation to create expressive and semi-pictorial digital fine art images. Bold and bright colors are transformed to attain a sense of inner clarity and to reveal subconscious truths. Her images are grounded between reality and imagination (the familiar and the enigmatic), which create a stillness in motion.
Her passion for swift surrealistic, impressionistic, and expressionistic styles transcend and empower her artworks into deeper narratives of self-reflection and observation. By compositing, layering, and abstracting digital imagery through a painterly aesthetic, she undergoes a series of metamorphoses, and expresses subtle and complex intricacies on the surreality and duality of emotion.
Her studio practice and photographic process also bring attention to the healing nature of confronting her own introspective and intuitive gaze before the gaze of the camera. Her transformative artworks create meaningful connections between the harmonious balance of color, nature, and spiritual growth. These visual and textural elements enrich her self portraits, which visualize the intangibility of emotion as a tangible and inevitable force that can live beneath and beyond the surface.
Rackowski has photographed the permanent collection of 20th century artifacts in communications and electronics at the David Sarnoff Gallery in Ewing, New Jersey. She is the Founder, Curator, > Gallery Director of Self Portraits On Fire - The First > Only International Online Self-Portrait Photo-Based Art Gallery > Community Platform that Specializes in Contemporary Fine Art Self-Portraiture. She earned an Associate of Fine Arts Degree (AFA) in Photography and Digital Imaging in 2017 at Mercer County Community College (MCCC) in New Jersey. She also earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (BFA) in Lens-Based Art: Photography and Video at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) in 2019. Her artwork has been exhibited in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Miami, and California. Her artwork has been featured in prestigious online publications and international art magazines, such as the Beautiful Bizarre Magazine. She has also been exhibited by numerous international online art platforms and galleries. As part of Era Contemporary’s The New Pre-Raphaelite’s: Illumination 2021-2022 Virtual Exhibition and The Legends of the Moon 2022-2023 In-Person Exhibition, Rackowski's artworks will be digitally exhibited, catalogued, and launched to the moon in the Lunar Codex: Polaris Mission time capsule in the fall of 2023-2024!
"I do not put myself on display as an object to be stared at. I present myself as a subject to be dared at."
— Danielle Rackowski
🌸Contact🌸
Let's stay in touch! For questions, pricing inquiries, or to purchase fine art edition prints, you can:
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2. Email me: danielle4photo@gmail.com
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Thank you!
🌸Artist CV🌸
EDUCATION
2019
The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), Ewing, NJ - BFA in Visual Arts (Lens-Based Art: Photography and Video)
2017
Mercer County Community College (MCCC), West Windsor, NJ - AFA in Visual Arts (Photography and Digital Imaging)
EXHIBITIONS
2023 - 2024
Legends of the Moon (Digital Exhibition with the Lunar Codex), Era Contemporary Gallery
2022
Legends of the Moon (Online and In-Person Exhibition with the Lunar Codex), Era Contemporary Gallery, Media, PA
Spring Into Color! Online Self-Portrait Photo Art Exhibition, Self Portraits On Fire Photo-Based Art Gallery
Human Faces and Figures Online Exhibition, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
CREATIVES ON FIRE Online Self-Portrait Photo Art Exhibition, Self Portraits On Fire Photo-Based Art Gallery
2021 - 2022
The New Pre-Raphaelites: Illumination (A Virtual Group Exhibition), Era Contemporary Gallery
2021
Digital Art, Assemblage or Collage Online and In-Person Exhibition, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Fire and Wind: All Art+ Series (Online and In-Person Exhibition), Van Der Plas Gallery, New York, NY
The New Pre-Raphaelites: Illumination (A Virtual Group Exhibition), Era Contemporary Gallery
THE AUTUMN EXHIBITION (A Global Virtual Exhibition), THE CURATOR'S SALON
NEW TALENTS International Emerging Artists Virtual Art Show, THE VIRTUAL ART (German Online Art Gallery)
THIS IS ME International Online Contemporary Self-Portrait Exhibition, The Art House Gallery
Colors 2021 International Online Juried Art Exhibition, J. Mane Gallery
EMPOWERED! Online Exhibition, Rivre Gallerie, Online Artist Collective and Gallerie
Summer 2021 Art All Night (AAN) Virtual Art Exhibition, ArtWorks (Trenton's Visual Arts Center), Trenton, NJ
Bloom - Spring Life Ahead Virtual Exhibit, Maritime Garage Gallery, Norwalk, CT
May 2021 (Spring Themed) International Online Juried Exhibition, HelvetArt Gallery, Swiss Art Gallery
ALONE|TOGETHER: Self Portraits During The Pandemic (A Global Online Art Exhibition), Up Arts Incubator, Lansdale, PA
2020
All Things Bright and Beautiful Online and In-Person Art Exhibition, Up Arts Incubator, Lansdale, PA
Masked and Creating Virtual Show, The James Kerney Campus (JKC) Gallery, Trenton, NJ
SaveArtSpace: Miami 2020 - Selected Artists Public Art Exhibition presented during Miami Art Week
Mercer County Artists 2020 Exhibition, The Gallery at Mercer County Community College, Mercer County, NJ
A Light in the Darkness Online Exhibition, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
The Spirit of Resilience Online Exhibition, Manhattan Arts International - The Healing Power of ART > ARTISTS, New York, NY
Summer 2020 Art All Night (AAN) Virtual Art Exhibition, ArtWorks (Trenton's Visual Arts Center), Trenton, NJ
Summer 2020 Art All Night Virtual Selects Exhibition (Top 50 Artists), ArtWorks (Trenton's Visual Arts Center), Trenton, NJ
2019
The Figure A Portrait Makes - Summer 2019 Photography Exhibition, The James Kerney Campus Gallery, Trenton, NJ
LOUD, Fine Arts and Photo > Video BFA Thesis Exhibition, The College of New Jersey Art Gallery, Ewing, NJ
2018
Transcendence, Photography BFA Solo Thesis Show, The College of New Jersey Art Gallery, Ewing, NJ
Light and Shadow: Form, Metaphor, and Culture - RAW Photography Exhibition, The Noyes Arts Garage of Stockton University, Atlantic City, NJ
2017
Visual Arts Student Exhibition, The Gallery at Mercer County Community College, Mercer County, NJ
2016
Visual Arts Student Exhibition, The Gallery at Mercer County Community College, Mercer County, NJ
FEATURES > PUBLICATIONS
2023
Special Volume/First Anniversary Issue (September 2023) - SKYIE MAGAZINE
CURATOR'S CHOICE: Self-Portrait Series 9 Curated Blog Publication > Showcase - Self Portraits On Fire Photo-Based Art Gallery
2022
"Legends of the Moon" Presented By Era Contemporary Gallery + Interview - Beautiful Bizarre
The magical self-portraits by Danielle Rackowski will become "Legends of the Moon!" - Self Portraits On Fire Photo-Based Art Gallery
CURATOR'S CHOICE: CREATIVES ON FIRE Curated Blog Publication > Showcase - Self Portraits On Fire Photo-Based Art Gallery
CURATOR'S CHOICE: Spring Into Color! Curated Blog Publication > Showcase - Self Portraits On Fire Photo-Based Art Gallery
Art Magazine Issue 1 (September 2022 Issue) - SKYIE MAGAZINE
Artist Spotlight: Transforming Bold > Bright Colors To Reveal Inner Clarity w/ Danielle Rackowski - The Arts To Hearts Project
2021
Art Magazine Issue 2 (November/December 2021) - GODDESS ARTS MAGAZINE
The New Pre-Raphaelites: Illumination Exhibition Book - Era Contemporary Gallery
Artist of the Month > Second Place Curated Online Feature for the NEW TALENTS International Emerging Artists Virtual Art Show - THE VIRTUAL ART
THE AUTUMN EXHIBITION: Danielle Rackowski - THE CURATOR'S SALON
Did You Know That This Was The Actual Meaning Of Flowers In Art? - Gallerima Magazine
Creative On Fire - Your Art Your Life International Online Magazine
ALONE|TOGETHER: Self Portraits During The Pandemic Online Art Exhibition: Self-portraits created during pandemic in virtual exhibit - The Bucks County Herald
2020
Masked and Creating Virtual Show: Danielle Rackowski | Self Portrait on Fire - The JKC Gallery
SaveArtSpace: Miami 2020 - A Cross-Media Public Art Exhibition presented during Miami Art Week - SaveArtSpace
expoartist.org for the Mercer County Artists 2020 Show - The Gallery at MCCC
towntopics.com for the Mercer County Artists 2020 Show - The Gallery at MCCC
CentralJersey.com for the Mercer County Artists 2020 Show - The Gallery at MCCC
Lady Gaga x Adobe Chromatica Online Creative Challenge - Adobe Creative Cloud
2019
LensCulture Art Photography Awards Competition Online Gallery - LensCulture - Contemporary Photography Network and Magazine
LOUD: Fine Arts and Photo > Video BFA Thesis Exhibition - TCNJ Art Gallery
MCCC Arts for The Figure A Portrait Makes Photography Exhibition - The JKC Gallery
2018
TCNJ Art Gallery for Transcendence - Photography BFA Solo Thesis Show - The TCNJ Art Gallery
2017
MCCC Arts for the Visual Arts Student Exhibition - The Gallery at MCCC
AWARDS
2021
Special Recognition for Cyclical Renewal - The Blue Blood Gallery 6CONTEST: Harmony of Art in Prague
Honorable Mention for Metamorphosis: The Art of Transformation - Visionary Art Collective
Second Place Winner of the NEW TALENTS International Emerging Artists Virtual Art Show - THE VIRTUAL ART Online Art Gallery
Selected Winner of the THIS IS ME International Online Contemporary Self-Portrait Exhibition - The Art House Gallery
Second Place Winner for Rose Duality - J. Mane Gallery: Colors 2021 International Online Juried Art Exhibition
Honorable Mention for Dream Aura - HelvetArt Gallery: May 2021 International Online Juried Exhibition
2020
The Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission Purchase Award for Rooted (Self Portrait), Digital Art on paper - The Gallery at MCCC: The Mercer County Artists 2020 Exhibition
The Renee Phillips Award of Excellence for Roots No. 2 (Self Portrait) - Manhattan Arts International: The Spirit of Resilience Online Exhibition
2017
The MCCC Gallery Purchase Award for Prism - The MCCC Visual Arts Student Exhibition
Outstanding Achievement Award in Photography and Digital Imaging at MCCC
COLLECTIONS
2023 - 2024
Dream Aura (2021) will be digitally catalogued, exhibited, and launched to the moon in a time capsule! Artwork is selected from The Legends of the Moon 2022-2023 In-Person Exhibition and will be included in the Lunar Codex: Polaris Mission.
Cyclical Renewal (2021) and Golden (2021) will be digitally catalogued, exhibited, and launched to the moon in a time capsule! Artworks are selected from The New Pre-Raphaelites: Illumination 2021-2022 Virtual Exhibition and will be included in the Lunar Codex: Polaris Mission.
2021
Harmony, digital photo art, part of Up Arts Incubator's Permanent Online Art Collection - The ALONE|TOGETHER: Self Portraits During The Pandemic Online Art Exhibition
2020
Rooted (Self Portrait), Digital Art on paper, part of the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission Permanent Art Collection - The Mercer County Artists 2020 Exhibition
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