By a mixed-media method combining oil paint with the tender definition of embroidery fiber, Daniela García Hamilton explores intergenerational bonds in tender, narrative canvases. A primary-generation American from a Mexican household, the artist metaphorically hyperlinks family members through thread, incorporating symbols of each Mexican and American geography and imagery of relations drawn from pictures.
“García Hamilton investigates legacies of tradition, the inevitability of assimilation, and the ways in which family histories replay themselves over time,” says an announcement from Charlie James Gallery, which is at present presenting the artist’s solo exhibition, Amanecer / Atardecer (Dawn / Sundown).
García Hamilton started incorporating embroidery into her work following the dying of her grandfather, whose personal expertise with textiles and enthusiasm for storytelling deeply influenced the artist’s curiosity within the relationship between craft, lineage, and reminiscence. Scenes vary from memorable occasions like weddings to on a regular basis moments by which individuals collect collectively at residence or for a siesta at the back of a pickup truck.
Derived from images in her household archive, García Hamilton’s figurative depictions are immanently relatable. But throughout the broader context of the U.S.’s socio-political local weather, particularly the present administration’s doubtful method to curbing immigration, there may be an plain sense of precarity and protectiveness. We’re invited into nostalgic, tender, even weak moments by which each particular person’s persona radiates by what the gallery describes as an “inner glow,” emphasizing the importance of togetherness, resilience, and safety.
Amanecer / Atardecer continues by August 2 in Los Angeles. Discover extra on the artist’s Instagram.
