About the artist
DaNice D Marshall is a born writer, who grew up in Boston, MA. In 2016, a serious illness left her with permanent lung damage, hearing loss and unable to walk without a cane. She started painting abstracts, as she puts it “mostly to watch the paint dry”. DaNice triumphed over these challenges and her artwork evolved to the Narrative Art that you see today. DaNice uses a textured acrylic technique to paint the stories that she can no longer write.
She is a 2025 National Rare Artist Awardee, a 2025 Andy Warhol Foundation CFF Grantee, and received a Mass Visual Art Citation from Governor Healey in February 2025. She is also a 2024 MassMOCA Visual Art Fellow. DaNice lives with her husband Ben, and their dog Tigger in Braintree, MA.
Artist statement
My work is always intentional in the connectedness of people. I paint Narrative Art, as much to record ordinary activities of life, as to show the viewer that all people laugh and have moments of joy.
We live in a digital world that’s spinning incredibly fast, and for me art slows us down so that we can see one another, in that way art creates community. I want my art to resonate with the viewer, like a familiar thread, part of the human story and to act as a reminder, that we are more alike, than we are different.
I hope my art makes you smile a little bit, at least on the inside.
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