Gisela McDaniel

Gisela McDaniel

BornNationalityBased In
1995AmericanDetroit
Biography

Gisela McDaniel (b. Bellevue, NE 1995) is a diasporic, indigenous Chamorro artist. Her work is reflecting the journey of womxn and non-binary people who have survived sexual trauma. By interweaving assemblages of oil painting, immersive audio sequences and objects connected to her subjects, she intentionally incorporates survivor’s voices in order to subvert traditional power relations and to enable both individual and collective healing. She aims to give a voice, safe space, as well as a confidential vehicle for survivors to not only share their experiences, but to also explore how those experiences have affected them long-term. Working primarily with womxn who identify as Black Indigenous Women of Colour (BIWOC), her work deliberately disrupts and responds to historical and contemporary patterns of female silence. There is no denying the ways in which global histories of enslavement, militarisation, colonisation, and patriarchal violence continue to inform the manner in which her subjects reflect on their personal stories of ‘waymaking’. Their calls to reclaim their bodies and identities illuminate active resistance to these same systems. Paul Gauguin is a primary but not exclusive figure whose work McDaniel engages and converses in regard to his artistic and colonial legacy in the Pacific. As a Pacific Island artist, McDaniel denounces Gauguin’s sexual and racial fantasy forged from a position of patriarchal, colonialist power and regains the Pacific territory and visual framework Gauguin had occupied for himself. ...

Selected Artworks
Equanimity #1
Gisela McDanielEquanimity #1, 202238.1 x 55.9cmPrice on Request
Equanimity #2
Gisela McDanielEquanimity #2, 202238.1 x 55.9cmPrice on Request
Equanimity #3
Gisela McDanielEquanimity #3, 202238.1 x 55.9cmPrice on Request
Untitled
Gisela McDanielUntitled, 202261 x 101.6 x 5.1cmPrice on Request
Yayas Yu’
Gisela McDanielYayas Yu’, 202167.3 x 52.1 x 7.6cmPrice on Request
Prima, Nieta, Nåna: Pasifika Bailadora
Gisela McDanielPrima, Nieta, Nåna: Pasifika Bailadora, 2021114.3 x 81.3 x 15.2cmPrice on Request
Paloa’an Míhinilat
Gisela McDanielPaloa’an Míhinilat, 2021165.1 x 152.4 x 40.6cmPrice on Request
CHelon Tiha
Gisela McDanielCHelon Tiha, 2021139.7 x 114.3 x 17.8cmPrice on Request
Self portraiture in surrounding, in landscape, in DNA, in objects, in material, in eyes, in stories,...
Gisela McDanielSelf portraiture in surrounding, in landscape, in DNA, in objects, in material, in eyes, in stories, in images, in the present, in the past, in plastic, in the familiar., 2021114.3 x 157.5 x 27.9cmPrice on Request
Snowden
Gisela McDanielSnowden, 2021114.3 x 175.3 x 14cmPrice on Request
Portrait as a Dead (Gutted) Fish
Gisela McDanielPortrait as a Dead (Gutted) Fish, 2021152.4 x 111.8cmPrice on Request
Tiningo' si Sirena
Gisela McDanielTiningo' si Sirena, 2021114.3 x 152.4 x 14cmPrice on Request
Transmuting
Gisela McDanielTransmuting, 2022101.6 x 132.1 x 14cmPrice on Request
Bigger than me
Gisela McDanielBigger than me, 2023165.1 x 279.4 x 17.8cmPrice on Request
Push through
Gisela McDanielPush through, 2023190.5 x 152.4 x 15.2cmPrice on Request
Compassion
Gisela McDanielCompassion, 2023132.1 x 177.8 x 15.2cmPrice on Request
Do more
Gisela McDanielDo more, 2023137.2 x 182.9 x 7.6cmPrice on Request
Born for it
Gisela McDanielBorn for it, 2023147.3 x 152.4 x 17.8cmPrice on Request
Twice as good
Gisela McDanielTwice as good, 2023157.5 x 121.9 x 10.2cmPrice on Request
Living more
Gisela McDanielLiving more, 2023106.7 x 139.7 x 15.2cmPrice on Request
Best thing for me to do
Gisela McDanielBest thing for me to do, 2023116.8 x 144.8 x 15.2cmPrice on Request
Never ending journey
Gisela McDanielNever ending journey, 2023109.2 x 83.8 x 7.6cmPrice on Request
Quiet
Gisela McDanielQuiet, 202340.6 x 30.5 x 7.6cmPrice on Request
Equanimity #1
Gisela McDanielEquanimity #1, 202255.9 x 38.1cmPrice on Request
Equanimity #2
Gisela McDanielEquanimity #2, 202255.9 x 38.1cmPrice on Request
Biennals
Dhaka Art Summit2020 - Dhaka