One of many highlights of Daniela García Hamilton: Amanecer / Atardecer (Dawn / Sundown) at Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles is the embodiment of absence. She is at her finest when the works sew into the canvas a way of loss recollections, letting the uncooked canvas take house and communicate to the setting of the work. Hamilton combines embroidery and oil portray, usually depicting what seems to be household pictures and refined hints of discovered pictures, and there may be this lovely and nearly painful dialog of what it means after we say cultural assimilation, or what the galleries calls “the inevitability of assimilation.” That’s the place the empty house of the canvas involves play, the place she is both hinting at a future that’s unwritten, a previous that has been erased, or histories which were forgotten. However the embroidery provides a weight, a grounding, one thing interwoven inside the work, that anchors every reminiscence. It implies that not every part is gone ceaselessly. —Evan Pricco
