Danielle Brutto is a mostly painter, but lots-of-things maker, based right here in Atlanta. She attended Parsons the New School for Design where she received a BFA in Fine Arts. Her work is gestural and deals mostly with the physicality of paint and the action of painting. While she works mostly at home on built panel surfaces, she has also ventured out to do a few murals in Florida and South Carolina. Faun and a Pan Flute is a musical act that transcends any one definition. They describe themselves as “an experiment of intention; deliberate, thoughtful, honest, visceral.” The group consists of nine members: Chris Child (marimba), Daniel Bailey (bass), Ben Shirley (cello), Peter Webb (sax), Julian Hinshaw (tuba), Adam Baber (guitar), David Gray (guitar), John Gregg (percussion), and Daniel Betts (percussion).
Overgrowth
Danielle Brutto | 2019
This specific design was inspired by kudzu growth around Atlanta. When traveling and asked about the landscape in Georgia, the artist references kudzu first. The artist interprets the nature of the prolific plant-its invasiveness, the nuisance, the magical visual phenomenon of its green blanketing-in a flurry of abstraction and symbolic overgrowth. This mural was painted as part of Beltline Walls, Vol. 2 and festival on August 4, 2019 on the interim Northeast Trail where it passes under I-85.