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email: dalgarate@gmail.com
While the work is defined as semi-functional – with mirror polished elements surrounding a framed design – Daniella's sculptures blur the boundaries between interior spaces and the natural world, inviting the viewer to experience the presence of nature within a constructed environment. The intention is to highlight the connection between visual and textural representations of the natural world and embrace metal’s inherent nature to evolve and transform over time. Through a combination of shaping, grinding, patina, and other layered treatments, she creates geological forms and textures that resemble topography and growth. These forms often create the illusion of fluidity and movement through their interactions with light and shadow, as well as color and tone, within undulated and manipulated structures. This balance between permanence, transformation, and growth is central to the work - the forms stay fixed, but the surfaces act as a living organism.
Daniella attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, earning her BFA in Fiber and Materials Study in 2014, where she focused on both contemporary and traditional weaving practices before transitioning to metal.
She co-owns a metal fabrication studio GAD Art & Fabrication alongside her father and brother in Los Angeles, CA.
Education
2014
BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Group Exhibitions
2026
Domestic Disco, The Feel LA, Los Angeles, CA.
2025
Glade, Two Faced Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2024
Femme Reflections, Cuff Studio, Los Angeles, CA.
Creatively Curated, Cummings Estate, Los Angeles, CA.
LCDQ Legends, Carlisle LA Showroom, Los Angeles, CA.
Smokey Trails, Rhett Baruch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2016
Mixed Expressions, Pop up, Los Angeles, CA.
2014
Mooncalf’s Metanoia, Church of Templehead, Chicago, IL.
2013
New Americans, The Haight, Chicago, IL.
Metamorphosis, Noyes Cultural Arts Center, Evanston, IL.