Oct 10

Daniela Pasqualini

Daniela Pasqualini is a sculptural painter who is represented by DHV Artworks Contemporary Gallery in Dallas, Marshall Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona, Steidel Contemporary in Palm Beach, Florida, and Thornwood Gallery in Houston. She has exhibited in Italy and across the United States in recent exhibitions and art fairs at The Hamptons Art Show and Artexpo in New York, Context Miami, A.S. Gallery and Coppell Art Center in Texas, Lohme Gallery in Sweden, Kathryn Schultz Gallery in Cambridge, and the Cambridge Art Association. Daniela has been notably published by Artnews magazine, Vogue, La Repubblica, and The Artvox.

The paintings are sculptural in nature as Daniela works with mixed media such as acrylic, pastels, and gel as a filler to create rich and thick three-dimensional texture. Flowing and nuanced, the tones are often so gradual to the point of giving off a crystalized appearance to the surface. Daniela depicts her compositions either completely flat or linear forms dragged through focal points creating dynamic, voluptuous, organic curves.

With a mix of bright colors and neutral tones, the paint linearly ‘drags’ the hues into an amorphous flowing entity with great sense of motion. The surface becomes stretched through the process as the composition becomes centered on linear fluidity. Like running water or melting icicles, the forms magically pass our eyes gaining traction towards a destination. Much like a camera zoom focus on an open creek of water or shallow pond, the viewer becomes taken upon a journey through a natural realm of crystalized, aqua-like forms.

Open Mind II (pictured above) remains one of Daniela’s most unusual paintings in the fact she depicts perspective instead of her usual flowing forms or flat compositions. The viewer becomes absorbed into a vortex which drives their eyes toward the focal point the bottom left of the composition. Unlike her other paintings, Open Mind II can be described as mostly monochromatic but still containing Daniela’s signature crystallization of hue through the subtle variation of grays. A painting which invokes great tension and draws attention upon itself.

Daniela Pasqualini creates fluid compositions which communicate a flow with the order of life and the natural world. These winding surfaces draw our attention to the careful manipulation of surfaces and subtle variation in paint which crystallize forms reminding us of shallow pools of moving water or observing melting icicles on a window sill. With nuance and a sense of great subtle linearity, Daniela entices the viewer to contemplate on inner tranquility invoked by her delicate transitions of color and form.