Gabriela Vainsencher
Asya Geisberg Gallery in collaboration with Daniela Elbahara Gallery, presenting work by Gabriela Vainsencher and Tahanny Lee Betancourt.
Gabriela Vainsencher’s painted, carved, and glazed ceramic wall reliefs combine archaeological and anatomical motifs that have appeared throughout her interdisciplinary practice. Vase-shaped sculptures are inspired by Greco-Roman amphora, and use the vessel as both form and symbol, enveloping a conversation around the female body. She carves, paints, and squeezes the clay as if it were flesh, imprinting it with finger marks or wiping away glaze from the clay’s unvarnished surface. The works employ motifs such as ultrasound imagery and swollen bellies along with wavy seascapes, cluttered interiors, or accoutrements of mothering. Portraits centered in medallions echo a more modernist style and with their concurrent evocation of ancient Egyptian Fayum portraits suggest deities or female archetypes.
