Gisela McDaniel
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Human-crafted. AI-refined.This vibrant painting features a striking female figure adorned with bold, colorful makeup and ornate jewelry. The overall composition is dreamlike, with the figure's voluptuous form accentuated by a warm, earthy palette. The intricate details, such as the intricate patterns on the skin and the delicate flowers, showcase the artist's technical mastery. The surreal landscape in the background, filled with lush foliage and a serene body of water, adds to the painting's mystical atmosphere. This work explores themes of feminine power and the beauty of the natural world, reflecting the artist's unique perspective and creative vision. ...
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Gisela McDaniel
B.1995, AmericanGisela 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. ...
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Pilar Corrias
London, LondonPilar 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. ...