Inconceivable quantities: There are, more or less, 1 454 193 000 cubic kilometres of water on earth forming the hydrosphere and distinguishing the Blue Planet from others in the solar system. Groundwater, oceans, ice and clouds: Liquid, solid and gaseous forms of water everlastingly moving in cycle, being the source of life. Human life depends on water, from the very beginning, the origin, to everyday life. Since 70% of the human body consists of water, which is essential for regulating organs, controlling body temperature and dissolving solids, drinking two liters of water everyday is vitally important. Dehydration may cause serious diseases.

Earth and men both are subject to scientific survey, though at different scales but with the same elaborateness of diagnostic and with increasing accurateness of imagery developed in the past centuries thirsty for knowledge: Subject matters Deanna Krueger is concerned about.

During her exhibition in Gallery UNO, she transforms the gallery space with its large windows into an aquarium-like 'sphere', into a microcosmic slice of the hydrosphere.

For her artwork Deanna Krueger employs recycled medical diagnostic film. Layered with acrylic, monotypes and graphite suspended in copolymer emulsion, the colour application flows and congeals into translucent currents. The meandering flow marks refers to every step of the creative process. The sheets then are torn apart. The shards, fragments of an unfathomable diagnosis, are reconnected in new figurations using thousands of staples; they are, with an increase in entropy, arranged to a higher order. In Deanna Krueger's tableaux and installations currents are swirling, rippling, and gurgling within a new structure, a new channelled stream, a new rhythm. Colour nuances blend delicately to a new entity evoking aquatic life forms, surreal vegetation, visions of cosmos or otherworldly geological formations.

Working at the juncture, where sculpture, painting and drawing intersect, Deanna Krueger's artwork reflects the different aggregate states of water: Solid structure, flowing tints, feathery slides.

Material manifestation and diaphanous intangibility, Deanna Krueger's work resemble quilts, every fragment referring to history and evolution of medical technique, methods of archiving, from paper to virtual documents, both perishable within time and future, transient material to describe the elusive.

DEANNA KRUEGER received her BFA at the University of Michigan in 2002, her MFA at the Eastern Michigan University in 2004. She was awarded with several grants. Since 1999 her artwork has been shown in many group and solo exhibitions in the US, it is represented by two galleries in Michigan. Since 2006 she is teaching at the Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago.

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