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MISSIVES TO THE ETHER: Daniele Frazier

Jun 14, 2026: 3pm - 4pm
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MISSIVES TO THE ETHER: Daniele Frazier

MISSIVES TO THE ETHER: Daniele Frazier. (Jun 14, 2026)

Hosted by Cat Tyc.

Daniele Frazier is a New York-based artist, published writer, and

educator dedicated to a practice marked by rigorous formal aesthetics

and a profound engagement with materiality. Her conceptually rich work

balances a deep investment in craft with serious inquiry into

phenomenology, the texture of everyday life, and the politics embedded

within public space and the definition of ownership. Frazier employs a

diverse material vocabulary influenced by a passion for

collecting—from metalwork and textiles to alternative camera-less

photographic and darkroom processes.


Frazier's work has been exhibited widely at institutions and galleries

including the Whitney Museum, The Queens Museum, Socrates Sculpture

Park, Guild & Greyshkul, Museum 52, Rivington Arms, Ritter Zamet, and

Gavin Brown’s Passerby, among others. With 10 years of experience

creating public sculpture in NYC, she brings her materially informed

artistic life into direct dialogue with the social and political

landscape of the city. She further extends this commitment to public

memory, craft, and social practice through her work for the NY AIDS

Memorial, where she facilitates the creation of new panels for the

AIDS Quilt.


As an educator, she lectures at numerous colleges and currently

instructs at the Buxton School. As a published writer and experienced

speaker, she merges her studio insights with scholarship. Having

served for over a decade on the Cooper Union admissions committee,

Frazier offers a rare and invaluable perspective on contemporary art,

interdisciplinary learning, and the college admissions landscape.


Frazier's current studio practice pushes the boundaries of

photographic media. She has begun to color-process photograms in order

to activate expired Kodak Ektachrome paper, leading a profound

exploration into optics, light, chemistry, and color theory. This

experimental work exemplifies her commitment to leveraging material

constraints as a basis for unprecedented artistic invention.



Interdisciplinary writer/artist Cat Tyc reads tarot for guests on air and plays whatever she wants.

Cat Tyc is an interdisciplinary writer/artist who has three chapbooks: An Architectural Seance (dancing girl press & studio), CONSUMES ME (Belladonna* Collaborative), and I AM BECAUSE MY LITTLE DOG KNOWS ME (Blush Lit). Her most recent writing has been published in Maggot Brain, The Recluse, FENCE, and The American Museum of Paramusicology. She has presented and performed at the Microscope Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, Brooklyn Museum, Hauser & Wirth, Kassel Fest, and the Synthesis Gallery in Berlin. She has directed music videos that have been added to the rotation on LOGO’s NewNowNext and MTVu. Her first solo exhibition, SIGNIFICANT OTHERNESS, was presented at Tanja Grunert Gallery in 2022. She has been granted residencies and fellowships at Signal Culture, The Flaherty Seminar, and Mass MOCA and has received support from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts. She lives in Hudson, NY.

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