"Reide's work treads between looking towards nature and being in the moment and seeing what arises in that immediacy, so nothing’s planned. She states that "I’m not looking at physical objects, like rocks or rivers or oceans, but somehow, with each moment, and in each painting, a different feeling and connection to nature and to my own physical being emerges.” The focus of Reide's artistic inquiry is the deconstruction and reimagining of the painting tradition.

The bulk of this study is manifest in site-specific installations composed of the detritus of artists and artisans from the collected leftovers and discards from their unique creative endeavors. Collecting, categorizing and displaying found materials, and examining the relationship of these displays to painting, drive her practice as an artist. Reide considers herself part of a generation of artists who are reinvigorating painting for the 21st century by expanding the materials and vocabulary of painting.

She regularly works with recycled non-traditional materials that are repurposed and integrated into paintings, which are installed on architectural structures such as walls. Danielle Felice Riede grew up in the United States and Iceland. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art from the University of Virginia, her Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Virginia Commonwealth University and also studied with Daniel Buren at the Kunstakademie Duesseldorf. Her international exhibition record includes galleries and museums in Mexico City, Athens, Berlin, New York, and many other cities.

Her work is also included in museum collections internationally. Danielle Felice Riede is the recipient of numerous awards including the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship, the Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture and a New Frontiers Grant from Indiana University. She is currently the Randolph H. Deer Professor of Painting at Herron School of Art and Design - IUPUI."