Gisela Charfauros McDaniel (born 1995) is an American visual artist of Indigenous Chamorro (or CHamoru) descent, working primarily with oil painting. McDaniel was born in Bellevue, Nebraska. She has lived in Detroit.[1][2]
Gisela McDaniel | |
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| Born | Gisela CHarfauros McDaniel 1995 (age 28–29) Bellevue, Nebraska, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan (BFA, 2019) |
| Known for | Paintings |
| Mother | Antoinette CHarfauros McDaniel |
| Website | www |
Background and career
editGisela McDaniel was born in 1995 at a military hospital in Bellevue, Nebraska, United States. She grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and attended an all-women’s high school on the Eastside of Cleveland.[3] McDaniel's holds a bachelor of fine arts from the University of Michigan (2019). Her mother, Antoinette CHarfauros McDaniel is a Chamorro scholar native to Guam, a U.S. Territory.[4][5][6] McDaniel was named to Forbes 2024 "30 Under 30" list for Art & Style.[7]
After graduating from college in 2019, the artist moved to Detroit, where she established a studio to live closer to her relatives and to find emotional support after surviving sexual violence from a former partner and while studying abroad in Florence, Italy. The tragic event became central in her artistic practice as both a coping mechanism and a way to create a platform for other survivors of gender-based violence to feel honored. McDaniel's paintings are mainly portraits of female and non-binary subjects who identify as Black, Chamorro, Pacific Islander, Indigenous to Turtle Island, Asian, Latinx, and/or mixed-race and had experienced trauma.[2][3]
McDaniel's work combines motion-activated audio components featuring excerpts of interviews and conversations between the painter and her sitters about experienced traumas. She refers to them as her “subject-collaborators.” In the words of critics, she creates paintings that "talk back" to viewers.[8][9][10][11]
In 2022, the artist presented the solo show “Manhaga Fu’una” at Pilar Corrias in London, in which she displayed paintings that incorporated found objects or donated materials ranging from clothing to recycled or broken jewelry.[11]
She was named Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2024, alongside artists Kathia St. Hilaire and Akea Brionne.[12][13]
Relation to Western Art History
editGisela McDaniel's artistic practice refers to the history of painting while highlighting marginalized voices within the art historical canon.[8] In past interviews, McDaniel mentioned her intent to recover Paul Gauguin's color palette as a way to reclaim her Chamorro/Pacific Islander ancestry. The subject in her painting Inagofli'e (2021) is posed very similarly to Gauguin's Spirit of the Dead Watching (1892). She says of Gauguin's work that she "would love to see it gone", and says that his book Writings on the Savage is "so awful" that it has helped motivate her – "the wounds and harm he created, how can I fix that and put something made with more intention in its place?"[14][15] In Got Your Back (2020), McDaniel refers to Gauguin as well as Delacroix's Women of Algiers (1834), and The Moroccans by Matisse.[14][16]
Exhibitions
edit- 2023 Tender Loving Care, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (group show)[6]
- 2023 Permanent Collection, Pérez Art Museum Miami (group show)[1]
- 2022 Manhaga Fu'una, Pilar Corrias, London (solo show)[8]
- 2022 A Place for Me: Figurative Painting Now, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (group show)[17]
- 2022 The Regional, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri (group show)[5]
- 2021 _How Do We Know the World? _, Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland (group show)[5]
- 2021 Dual Vision, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Michigan (group show)[5]
- 2020 Making WAY/FARING Well, Pilar Corrias, London (solo show)[8]
Artworks in notable collections
edit- Speaking Seeds, 2020. Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida[18]
- Tiningo’ si Sirena, 2021. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts[6]
- Inagofli’e, 2021. Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Florida[19]
- What She Saw/Where She Went, 2020. Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland[20]
References
edit- ^ a b "Gisela McDaniel • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved 2023-08-04.
- ^ a b "Gisela McDaniel Makes Work That Helps Healing". www.culturedmag.com. Retrieved 2023-08-07.
- ^ a b "Gisela McDaniel Offers A Space for Healing Within Her Canvas". Art of Choice. 2020-07-10. Retrieved 2023-08-07.
- ^ Wen, Anne (2021-09-15). "'It restores my soul': pandemic offers unexpected boon to Guam indigenous language learners". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-08-07.
- ^ a b c d Derksen, Peter (2022). "Gisela McDaniel". Ocula.
- ^ a b c "Tiningo' si Sirena: A Conversation with Gisela Charfauros McDaniel and Antoinette CHarfauros McDaniel". Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
- ^ "Gisela McDaniel". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
- ^ a b c d Souter, Anna (2022-02-09). "A Painter Takes a Collaborative Approach to the Portrait". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
- ^ Kalil-Barrino, Marisa (2022-08-12). "Painter Gisela McDaniel Gives Voices to Marginalized Communities". Hour Detroit Magazine. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
- ^ "Gisela McDaniel". Kresge Arts in Detroit. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
- ^ a b Hussein, Nimco Kulmiye (2022-02-16). "Gisela McDaniel Paints Dazzling Portraits of Indigenous Resilience". Artsy. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
- ^ "Gisela McDaniel". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
- ^ "Forbes 30 Under 30 2024: Art & Style". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
- ^ a b Baumgardner, Julie (2022-01-26). "'I Want to Replace Gauguin's Work': How Chamorro Painter Gisela McDaniel Gives Survivors of Trauma a Voice With Her Portraits". Artnet News. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
- ^ Cotter, Holland (2019-11-21). "We're Still Talking About Gauguin (Published 2019)". The New York Times. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
- ^ "You are being redirected..." kadist.org. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
- ^ "Gisela McDaniel: Sunset Over 8 Mile – ICA Boston". Retrieved 2023-08-08.
- ^ "Speaking Seeds • Pérez Art Museum Miami". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved 2023-08-07.
- ^ "Inagofli'e". Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Retrieved 2023-08-08.
- ^ "Baltimore Museum of Art's New Contemporary Wing Reinstallation Emphasizes Artists' Voices and Social Themes Relevant to Audiences | Baltimore Museum of Art". Baltimore Museum of Art’s New Contemporary Wing Reinstallation Emphasizes Artists’ Voices and Social Themes Relevant to Audiences | Baltimore Museum of Art. Retrieved 2023-08-09.