Art School Maa’s Thursday lecture series, hosted by Catalysti, continues with its second session. Welcome!

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26.09.2024 Artist talk with Gabriella Presnal
on “Shifting into Artistic Practice”

at 10–11.30 on Zoom (request link via )
Facebook event page link: https://www.facebook.com/events/506103068798368/

Gabriella Presnal (they/them, b. 2001) is a Finnish-American transdisciplinary artist working with painting, sculpture, and various other mixed mediums. They are interested in working with visualizing and representing types of spatiality transformed by emotions, memories, and stories related to queerness and international identities. They draw on their own lived experiences as well as various forms of literature related to youth, space & time, and nostalgia, at the intersection of a material practice that utilizes paint and discard. Presnal has a background growing up in the U.S., Canada, and Sweden, and has been living in Finland for the past seven years. They have just relocated to Copenhagen, Denmark in pursuit of a dual master’s degree.

https://www.gabriellapresnal.com/

[Image description: It is a white space with a person (Gabriella Presnal) in between a series of artworks. The artworks are made up of cable wire and some with cable wire and sticks. Presnal wears jeans, a denim jacket, a black teeshirt, glasses, and a blue cap. The person is white with medium brown hair. The largest sculpture hangs from the ceiling and is taller than the person. It is raised approximately 30 cm off the ground and is approximately 80 cm taller than the person. The largest sculpture is entirely woven of black cables. The smaller works consist of woven cables (varying colors but mostly white) woven in between the negative space of found forked branches (wherein two smaller branches are emerging from one thicker base). ]

Photo credits: Gabriella Presnal

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Art School Maa follows ethical guidelines against any form of discrimination. Please read the guidelines for working together sent as attachment before attending the event. Equity guidelines can be found on the website as well.

The project is supported by @taikegram