Dawn Breeze
“I believe it is the beauty we love that we must do. As an interdisciplinary artist, I create and facilitate experiences for individual and social liberation.” – Dawn Breeze
Dawn Breeze lives and works in Germantown, New York where she is a creativity advocate, change agent, and internationally renowned artist. Breeze works with global organizations and institutions about creativity and leadership. Her work strives to build a community through creativity.Her artistic projects span a wide range of mediums. Covering installation and sculpture using natural and found objects, painting, photography and video, as well as many others.
Breeze’s installation Free Now is comprised of used and discarded clothing items, a step ladder, and a pair of human sized feathered wings. The sculpture was constructed to be easily assembled as disassembled, allowing it to move through a variety of environments both indoors and outdoors. The piece’s debut was staged in a farmer’s field off of route 8. Free Now touches on subjects of environment, mental illness, and society.
Free Now (above)
Breeze’s exhibition plant Magic dust is a body of work that explores her interest in connecting ideas, time, place, life, and death. Using materials like dirt, plastic, and cloth she examines each materials and the story behind them as well. Breeze encourages the materials to tell their story. Breeze states, “…I want to ask it: are you paint, are you minerals, are you flowers, are you death, are you life, are you a hot day in Africa, how can I appreciate and honor you?…”
The title of the exhibition was inspired but the poem by E. E. Cummings that Breeze found among her departed sisters keepsakes.
plant Magic dust
E. Cummings
expect hope doubt
(wonder mistrust)
despair
and right
where soulless our
(with all their minds)
eyes blindly stare
life herSelf stands
