Danica Phelps

The work of Danica Phelps gathers conceptual precedents not only by taking in account economy as a main theme of her work but also in the own practice of the data capture, the exhaustiveness, and in the record of the facts, that have been a main feature of conceptual art.

Since 1996 Danica Phelps has been documenting all of her income and expenses through drawings in a system that becomes increasingly layered and complex. In this system, each drawing is a depiction of a daily activity and documentation of a financial transaction, and each dollar is represented by a single stripe of watercolor: green for income, red for expense and grey for credit.

The result is a huge personal diary, even if speaking of results is hard. First because the work is always in process, and second because the work in itself is almost not a work in itself but a tracing, a document of pieces of everyday life.

She has participated in the Whitney Museum Triennial and has exhibited at institutions such as the New Museum, Hammer Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Fundación La Caixa, and Folkwang Museum, among others.

Her works can be found in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Arkansas Art Center, Daimler Art Collection, Farnsworth Museum, Hammer Museum, Magasin 3 Konsthall, Seattle Art Museum, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Wien Museum, Yale Art Museum, Fundación La Caixa, and Tang Teaching Museum.