daniela gomez paz
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Daniela Gomez Paz forms autobiographical threads that utilize color to hold emotional weight; descriptive of personal memory and symbolic of regions she’s called home. By merging natural and manmade material, fibers and objects to weave, embroider, draw, paint, collage and create sculpture, her work reflects on the origins of weaving as a form of language. Weaving is the text she returns to that teaches her to unravel movement by physically giving into the exertion of the process. Color schemes evoke feelings of corporeal matter--it’s synchronous, it is impermanent and in fluctuating motion. Through wrapping, weaving, stitching, pouring, tearing, and mending, she intertwines growth with decay and arranges tactile tensions in cyclical rhythms. Currently, she is in dialogue with crafting traditions of la Cordillera de los Andes. As, she traces the interconnections and shifts between textile techniques from different regions, she embraces the embodiment of this language as a form for storytelling through the power of cloth.
Born in Cali, Colombia, she immigrated to Queens, New York. Her pursued path in the arts and background in pedagogy led her to facilitate a wide range of programs with children, youth, seniors and families in schools, museums, and community centers. She acquired a Double Degree: BFA [Painting/Drawing] & BA [Art History] from SUNY Purchase School of Art and Design and a MAT [Masters in Art Teaching] from Queens College. She is a recipient of the Signal Fire Fellowship for the Wide-Open Studio Backpacking Residency Program and was selected as the artist in residence to Arquetopia’s 2022 Andean Weaving Program in Urubamba, Peru. Currently, she resides in New Haven and is earning her MFA in the Yale School of Art’s Painting and Printmaking program.
WORKS
Mirador del perdon, 2022
Monotyle, oil pastels, fab pics and paper
6 x 5.6 ft
Recuerdo en nubes, 2022
Natural and manmade fibers, objects and material
34.5 x 16.5in
Huella, 2022
Natural and manmade fibers and objects
12 x 11 in
Jardin de niña en mujer, 2022
Natural and manmade fibers, objects and material
34 x 31 in
EXHIBITIONS
NEWS
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