A California native from Santa Monica, Daniele Albright is a multidisciplinary artist and designer whose work, often characterized by a desire to bridge materiality and intangibility, is deeply influenced by Light and Space as well as other art and cultural movements she encountered growing up in Los Angeles. Interested in collapsing the contradictions between form and formlessness, her art practice frequently explores the immaterial as the indeterminate, shifting space between perception and the material world. In contrast, her design work focuses on solid, architecturally influenced forms, distilled to their most essential elements to find resonance in simple yet compelling geometries.

From 2014 to 2024, her design work was produced under the name of her design company, Videre Licet, Latin for “to be able to see.” The collection features sculptural design pieces that embody the idea of “conceptual glamour,” drawing from a range of California references, from minimalist sculpture to Hollywood glamour and ’70s experimentalism. The New York Times called the collection “daring, glamorous and a touch tongue-in-cheek,” while the Wall Street Journal described it as exemplifying “the push-me-pull-you tension between minimalism and materiality that defines luxury design.” Starting in 2024, all existing and new design works are produced under her own name.

She holds a BFA in Sculpture from Parsons School of Design in NYC and an MFA from CalArts. She also pursued advanced academic work at UC Irvine’s Critical Theory program, earning an MA in Comparative Literature and an MA in Visual Studies. Her research centered on Jean-François Lyotard’s groundbreaking exhibition Les Immatériaux at the Pompidou Center in Paris in 1985, analyzing the multidisciplinary exhibition through the conceptual framework Lyotard first developed in his 1971 dissertation Discours, Figure, which had not yet been translated into English.

In addition to her art and design work and time teaching in academia, she spent several years as a photographer for various publications, including the bestselling Gypset series published by Assouline. She has also served as consulting director for Twentieth since 2000, spearheading the contemporary design division that now defines the gallery.

An active environmentalist specializing in forest ecosystem restoration, she owns forest land in the watershed of North America’s most biodiverse river, where she lives part-time and is engaged in an intensive forest, watershed, and wildlife habitat restoration project. She named her property Tanager Forest after the Tanager songbird that follows her around the land during its migratory season.