A collection of hybrid canvases by Mexican-American artist Daniela García Hamilton. García Hamilton obtained her Bachelors of High-quality Arts in Drawing and Portray from California State College Lengthy Seaside. Her work explores the rituals and traditions she skilled as a toddler of immigrant mother and father. Integrating color and sample all through, García Hamilton explores the vibrancy of her traditions by portraits of her members of the family and settings which might be fabricated to attract consideration to social-political commentary on previous and present immigrant experiences.
“Amanecer / Atardecer (Dawn / Sundown)” marks García Hamilton’s first exhibition with Charlie James Gallery. Her works contain a mixture of embroidery and oil portray. As a first-generation American, García Hamilton investigates legacies of custom, the inevitability of assimilation, and the methods wherein household histories replay themselves over time. She attracts from an archive of household images and tales, threading members of the family collectively throughout generations and borders. Most of the works within the exhibition characteristic García Hamilton’s late grandfather and her younger nephew, his great-grandson who he by no means acquired an opportunity to fulfill. Her use of embroidery is equally a mirrored image of her household historical past as it’s one thing she took up after the passing of her grandfather. Each of García Hamilton’s grandparents labored in textiles and her grandfather was additionally the storyteller of the household.
“Amanecer / Atardecer” is on show at Charlie James Gallery in California till August 2nd. All images by Ofstudio Images.
