A collection of hybrid canvases by Mexican-American artist Daniela García Hamilton. García Hamilton acquired her Bachelors of Superb Arts in Drawing and Portray from California State College Lengthy Seaside. Her work explores the rituals and traditions she skilled as a baby of immigrant dad and mom. Integrating color and sample all through, García Hamilton explores the vibrancy of her traditions by way of portraits of her relations and settings which are 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 pictures and tales, threading relations collectively throughout generations and borders. Lots of the works within the exhibition function García Hamilton’s late grandfather and her younger nephew, his great-grandson who he by no means obtained 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 pictures by Ofstudio Images.
