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 McDaniel
Equanimity #1, 2022
38.1 x 55.9cm
Equanimity #2
Gisela McDaniel
Equanimity #2, 2022
38.1 x 55.9cm
Equanimity #3
Gisela McDaniel
Equanimity #3, 2022
38.1 x 55.9cm
Untitled
Gisela McDaniel
Untitled, 2022
61 x 101.6 x 5.1cm
Yayas Yu’
Gisela McDaniel
Yayas Yu’, 2021
67.3 x 52.1 x 7.6cm
Prima, Nieta, Nåna: Pasifika Bailadora
Gisela McDaniel
Prima, Nieta, Nåna: Pasifika Bailadora, 2021
114.3 x 81.3 x 15.2cm
Paloa’an Míhinilat
Gisela McDaniel
Paloa’an Míhinilat, 2021
165.1 x 152.4 x 40.6cm
CHelon Tiha
Gisela McDaniel
CHelon Tiha, 2021
139.7 x 114.3 x 17.8cm
Self 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.
Gisela McDaniel
Self 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., 2021
114.3 x 157.5 x 27.9cm
Snowden
Gisela McDaniel
Snowden, 2021
114.3 x 175.3 x 14cm
Portrait as a Dead (Gutted) Fish
Gisela McDaniel
Portrait as a Dead (Gutted) Fish, 2021
152.4 x 111.8cm
Tiningo' si Sirena
Gisela McDaniel
Tiningo' si Sirena, 2021
114.3 x 152.4 x 14cm
Transmuting
Gisela McDaniel
Transmuting, 2022
101.6 x 132.1 x 14cm
Bigger than me
Gisela McDaniel
Bigger than me, 2023
165.1 x 279.4 x 17.8cm
Push through
Gisela McDaniel
Push through, 2023
190.5 x 152.4 x 15.2cm
Compassion
Gisela McDaniel
Compassion, 2023
132.1 x 177.8 x 15.2cm
Do more
Gisela McDaniel
Do more, 2023
137.2 x 182.9 x 7.6cm
Born for it
Gisela McDaniel
Born for it, 2023
147.3 x 152.4 x 17.8cm
Twice as good
Gisela McDaniel
Twice as good, 2023
157.5 x 121.9 x 10.2cm
Living more
Gisela McDaniel
Living more, 2023
106.7 x 139.7 x 15.2cm
Best thing for me to do
Gisela McDaniel
Best thing for me to do, 2023
116.8 x 144.8 x 15.2cm
Never ending journey
Gisela McDaniel
Never ending journey, 2023
109.2 x 83.8 x 7.6cm
Quiet
Gisela McDaniel
Quiet, 2023
40.6 x 30.5 x 7.6cm
Equanimity #1
Gisela McDaniel
Equanimity #1, 2022
55.9 x 38.1cm
Equanimity #2
Gisela McDaniel
Equanimity #2, 2022
55.9 x 38.1cm
Biennals
Dhaka Art Summit2020 - Dhaka
Dhaka Art Summit2020 - Dhaka
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