Danielle Rowe is a Jamaican-American multimedia artist based in Brooklyn. Her practice explores the intersection of color, energy, and elemental forces through vibrant, layered compositions that serve as portals into the Black global experience. Drawing on her heritage, ancestral memory, and a deep reverence for the natural world, Rowe builds imagined ecosystems where abstraction, political consciousness, and speculative futures converge in pursuit of liberation.

She often blends acrylic paint with natural materials such as sand, rainwater, and bark, resulting in tactile compositions that hum with spiritual and ecological presence. Utilizing sediment and plant life in her work, she grounds abstract forms in earthly memory. Rowe’s paintings invite viewers into the dreamspace – a realm of Black joy, resistance, and futures not yet imagined. To fully engage with her work, she invites the viewer be transported to a space of boundless possibility. Within it, her visual stories evoke themes of identity, belonging, and transformation.

Rowe is the founder of Black Queer Art (BQA), a virtual gallery amplifying the voices of Black and Queer artists as agents of cultural change. She received her BA in African American Studies from Fordham University in 2012. Her current body of work, PORTALS, is on view in Brooklyn through the end of August. She is developing a new series inspired by oceanic memory and volcanic landscapes for a Winter 2025 exhibition.

For more info visit: daniellerowe.com | Instagram: @daniellerowe.jpg and @blackqueer.art