Danelle Sabathier

Danelle Sabathier is a contemporary abstract painter based in Boulder, Colorado.

She began her studies in Fine Art before pursuing International Affairs and living in Paris for eleven years. After returning to the United States, she stepped away from painting for nearly two decades before returning to her studio with renewed focus.
Her work grows from the belief that significant experiences permanently change us. Through layered, medium- and large-scale acrylic paintings, she explores the buildup of pressure, moments of rupture, what disappears, and what remains. She layers, buries, uncovers, and removes paint so that each piece retains the history of its making.

Working primarily in reds and blues, Sabathier uses shifts in saturation, transparency, and exposed canvas to create paintings that remain open to individual interpretation while reflecting on endurance, memory, and irreversible change. Color functions as both emotion and structure.

The work is not about resolution. It is about endurance inside instability.

Studies in Fine Art, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
BA, International Affairs, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
MBA, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Exhibitions
2026 BBA 360°, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany (Shortlisted & Selected Artist)
2026 Selected Works, Ever Sky, NoBo Art District, Boulder, CO
2026 Open Studios Preview Exhibition, The Canyon Gallery, Boulder, CO
2026 Selected Works, Gallery Boulder Junction, Boulder, CO
2026 Selected Works, Hyatt, Boulder, CO
2026 Selected Works, The Armory, NoBo Art District, Boulder, CO
2026 Open Wall, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA), Boulder, CO

Awards & Juried Selections
2026 Open Studios Boulder, Boulder, CO (Juried Selection)
2026 16th Abstract International Juried Art Competition, TERAVARNA, Los Angeles, CA (Honorable Mention)
2026 COLOR 2026 International Juried Art Competition, TERAVARNA, Los Angeles, CA (Honorable Mention)
2026 BOAPS – Fall & Summer 2026, Biafarin, Toronto, Canada (Two Juried Selections)

Selected Curatorial Features
2026 Emerging Works, H.D. Galerie, Paris, France
2026 In Praise of Uncertainty, Attaly Contemporary Art, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
2026 Shadows of the Sublime: Expressionism After the Abyss, AF Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2026 The Vermilion Threshold, AF Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2026 Rojo, Stella Lillig Open Studio, New York, NY
2026 Artists to Follow in the US, Singulart