Gabrielle Egnater - "Medical Suit, 2023"
Artwork Title, Year: Medical Suit, 2023
Medium: Photography
Dimensions as Exhibited: 3' x 2' per image
Price: 750
Artist Bio: Gabrielle Egnater (she/her) is an artist and educator working in Los Angeles, CA. She has exhibited at venues including the University of Albany, HTW Berlin University of Applied Sciences, and Spertus Institute. Gabrielle received her BFA in Sculpture and Visual Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and MFA in the Sculpture Dimensional Studies Program at Alfred University. Her previous positions include Foundry Technician at the College for Creative Studies and Instructor of Record at Alfred University. She is currently a Lecturer at California State University San Marcos.
Artist Statement: My practice has a foundation in my Ashkenazi heritage and upbringing in 90’s Los Angeles. This has led to obsessions with my grandmother's palm springs style ranch house, Hollywood “rags to riches” stories, my fickle relationship with ethno-religions, and the way that America digests diaspora.
Having left Los Angeles for the past decade and having recently returned, the foundation has remained the same but the work has started to be based in time. Specifically, blending past, future, the hypothetical, and the fabricated. A type of futurism. But it is a type of futurism that acknowledges the fickleness of traumatic memory and the hypocrisy of future self. It is simultaneously world building and fabricating an alternate history.
My work has a continual combination of violence, mourning, and humor. This is often paired with imaginary phrases that are posted around the studio. They currently read “count your bees”, “putting memories to bed”, “hide your knives in the dog house”, and “where are the clouds”. These figures of speech often predetermine the emotional landscape of the work. There is comfort in the poetically purposeful words and yet they remain entirely nonsensical.
Artwork Title, Year: Medical Suit, 2023
Medium: Photography
Dimensions as Exhibited: 3' x 2' per image
Price: 750
Artist Bio: Gabrielle Egnater (she/her) is an artist and educator working in Los Angeles, CA. She has exhibited at venues including the University of Albany, HTW Berlin University of Applied Sciences, and Spertus Institute. Gabrielle received her BFA in Sculpture and Visual Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and MFA in the Sculpture Dimensional Studies Program at Alfred University. Her previous positions include Foundry Technician at the College for Creative Studies and Instructor of Record at Alfred University. She is currently a Lecturer at California State University San Marcos.
Artist Statement: My practice has a foundation in my Ashkenazi heritage and upbringing in 90’s Los Angeles. This has led to obsessions with my grandmother's palm springs style ranch house, Hollywood “rags to riches” stories, my fickle relationship with ethno-religions, and the way that America digests diaspora.
Having left Los Angeles for the past decade and having recently returned, the foundation has remained the same but the work has started to be based in time. Specifically, blending past, future, the hypothetical, and the fabricated. A type of futurism. But it is a type of futurism that acknowledges the fickleness of traumatic memory and the hypocrisy of future self. It is simultaneously world building and fabricating an alternate history.
My work has a continual combination of violence, mourning, and humor. This is often paired with imaginary phrases that are posted around the studio. They currently read “count your bees”, “putting memories to bed”, “hide your knives in the dog house”, and “where are the clouds”. These figures of speech often predetermine the emotional landscape of the work. There is comfort in the poetically purposeful words and yet they remain entirely nonsensical.
Artwork Title, Year: Medical Suit, 2023
Medium: Photography
Dimensions as Exhibited: 3' x 2' per image
Price: 750
Artist Bio: Gabrielle Egnater (she/her) is an artist and educator working in Los Angeles, CA. She has exhibited at venues including the University of Albany, HTW Berlin University of Applied Sciences, and Spertus Institute. Gabrielle received her BFA in Sculpture and Visual Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and MFA in the Sculpture Dimensional Studies Program at Alfred University. Her previous positions include Foundry Technician at the College for Creative Studies and Instructor of Record at Alfred University. She is currently a Lecturer at California State University San Marcos.
Artist Statement: My practice has a foundation in my Ashkenazi heritage and upbringing in 90’s Los Angeles. This has led to obsessions with my grandmother's palm springs style ranch house, Hollywood “rags to riches” stories, my fickle relationship with ethno-religions, and the way that America digests diaspora.
Having left Los Angeles for the past decade and having recently returned, the foundation has remained the same but the work has started to be based in time. Specifically, blending past, future, the hypothetical, and the fabricated. A type of futurism. But it is a type of futurism that acknowledges the fickleness of traumatic memory and the hypocrisy of future self. It is simultaneously world building and fabricating an alternate history.
My work has a continual combination of violence, mourning, and humor. This is often paired with imaginary phrases that are posted around the studio. They currently read “count your bees”, “putting memories to bed”, “hide your knives in the dog house”, and “where are the clouds”. These figures of speech often predetermine the emotional landscape of the work. There is comfort in the poetically purposeful words and yet they remain entirely nonsensical.