Dani Kump (b. 1979, California) creates paintings that unfold in layers—across time, memory, and shifting states of awareness. Each work begins with an intuitive underpainting, created in a flow state where instinct guides mark-making. These initial gestural paintings are then put away, for months or years, allowing distance, time, and perspective to reshape them.

When the work is returned to, new information reveals itself—forms, patterns, or context that weren’t accessible at first. A second layer is then composed, often structured in a grid or repeat pattern that brings new clarity and resolution to the original surface. The process mirrors the logic of weaving: threads pulled through at different intervals and depths, creating patterns emerging through the repetition and restraint across a loom.

Kump’s practice is an act of translation and her paintings are visual records of moments metabolized, reinterpreted, and brought into harmony through time. She studied Religious Studies at Boston University and has been a working painter since 2005.