Gisela McDaniel
Sep 12th - 25th

Gisela McDaniel is a diasporic, Indigenous CHamoru artist who explores the effects of trauma, displacement and colonization through portraiture and oral histories. Interweaving audio interviews, assemblage, and oil painting, she intentionally incorporates the portrait sitters' voices to subvert the traditional power relations of artist and sitter. Working primarily with women and non-binary people who identify as Black, Micronesian, Indigenous to Turtle Island, Asian, Latinx, and/or mixed-race, her work disrupts and responds to the systemic silencing of subjects in fine art, politics, and popular culture.

During her residency, McDaniel will continue her exploration of the multiple intersections of imperialism, militarized displacement/colonization, racism, misogyny, queer/transphobia in resistant BIPOC communities, with a special focus on Oceanic subject-collaborators.