Portrait as a Dead (Gutted) Fish
Portrait as a Dead (Gutted) Fish

Gisela McDaniel

Portrait as a Dead (Gutted) Fish, 2021152.4 x 111.8cmPrice on Request
Details
MaterialGalleryLocation
oil on canvas and shellPilar CorriasLondon
Description
Human-crafted. AI-refined.

The artwork features a vibrant and abstract composition, dominated by bold, expressive brushstrokes in shades of pink, red, and orange. The central figure appears to be a female form with flowing, curly hair, depicted in a dynamic, almost whimsical manner. The use of organic shapes and gestural lines creates a sense of energy and movement within the frame. The overall style suggests a contemporary, expressionistic approach, where the artist has used the medium to capture a spontaneous, emotional response rather than a realistic representation. The artwork's vivid colors and dynamic composition invite the viewer to engage with the piece and interpret its subjective, personal nature. ...

Gisela McDaniel
Artist
Gisela McDaniel
B.1995, American

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. ...

Gisela McDaniel: Artworks
Equanimity #1
Gisela McDanielEquanimity #1, 2022Price on Request
Equanimity #2
Gisela McDanielEquanimity #2, 2022Price on Request
Equanimity #3
Gisela McDanielEquanimity #3, 2022Price on Request
Untitled
Gisela McDanielUntitled, 2022Price on Request
Yayas Yu’
Gisela McDanielYayas Yu’, 2021Price on Request
Prima, Nieta, NÃ¥na: Pasifika Bailadora
Gisela McDanielPrima, Nieta, NÃ¥na: Pasifika Bailadora, 2021Price on Request
Paloa’an Míhinilat
Gisela McDanielPaloa’an Míhinilat, 2021Price on Request
CHelon Tiha
Gisela McDanielCHelon Tiha, 2021Price 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., 2021Price on Request
Snowden
Gisela McDanielSnowden, 2021Price on Request
Portrait as a Dead (Gutted) Fish
Gisela McDanielPortrait as a Dead (Gutted) Fish, 2021Price on Request
Tiningo' si Sirena
Gisela McDanielTiningo' si Sirena, 2021Price on Request
Transmuting
Gisela McDanielTransmuting, 2022Price on Request
Bigger than me
Gisela McDanielBigger than me, 2023Price on Request
Push through
Gisela McDanielPush through, 2023Price on Request
Compassion
Gisela McDanielCompassion, 2023Price on Request
Do more
Gisela McDanielDo more, 2023Price on Request
Born for it
Gisela McDanielBorn for it, 2023Price on Request
Twice as good
Gisela McDanielTwice as good, 2023Price on Request
Living more
Gisela McDanielLiving more, 2023Price on Request
Best thing for me to do
Gisela McDanielBest thing for me to do, 2023Price on Request
Never ending journey
Gisela McDanielNever ending journey, 2023Price on Request
Quiet
Gisela McDanielQuiet, 2023Price on Request
Equanimity #1
Gisela McDanielEquanimity #1, 2022Price on Request
Equanimity #2
Gisela McDanielEquanimity #2, 2022Price on Request
Pilar Corrias
Gallery
Pilar Corrias
London, London

Pilar Corrias Gallery is a contemporary art gallery owned by Pilar Corrias. The 3,800 square foot gallery in London's Fitzrovia, designed by Rem Koolhaas, is made up of two exhibition spaces, located in the heart of London's West End. Pilar Corrias opened a second London gallery space at 2 Savile Row in July 2021, designed by London and Oslo-based architect firm Hesselbrand. Since its inception, the gallery has worked with emerging and established artists with the central aim of allowing their work to grow both in terms of production of new projects and the making of new exhibitions. Pilar Corrias now represents a total of thirty-two international artists, two-thirds of whom are female. ...