About
Gabriela Manfredi is a Photographer focused primarily on Photo Manipulation & Documentary work. Gabriela’s work varies vastly in subject matter and style, but shares common themes of exploring the therapeutic artistic process as well as through the exploration of light and color. Gabriela’s documentary work gives an intimate look at her close family dynamics and her experimental work pulls inspiration from the psychedelic era with highly contrasted manipulated images of the natural world.
Gabriela is currently focusing on building her experimental landscape series in an effort to explore the natural world. The first set of work in this series is titled Hazadia, and was created in Acadia National Park in Maine. Hazadia represents a personal retreat into the natural world as a proactive response to the turmoil of human society and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Hazadia focused on explorations of a more ephemeral and atmospheric nature as an outlet to express my emotional responses to the ebb and flow of life in a lighter, more effervescent manner. Gabriela plans on continuing to explore these themes in future works.
Providing viewers an unvarnished window into her father’s fight with AIDs, Gabriela’s Documentary series explores the emotional toll created by mourning someone day by day as they gradually fade away over decades. Gabriela’s adoptive family featuring her fathers Tom & Dj have been in the spotlight for years in her photographic work and soon she is looking forward to exploring a new set of parents through a series that seeks to gain insight into her birth parents while simultaneously documenting the process of uncovering her origins.
Gabriela studied Fine Art Photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC and is passionate about supporting fellow female artists as well as the broader local artistic community. Professionally Gabriela works in Podcast Media as a Media Coordinator and Part-Time supporting the Patchogue Arts Council • MoCA L.I. with Social Media outreach and content creation.
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Featured in:
AllSheMakes - Magazine Issue 2
AllSheMakes - Directory Artist: 2020 -Current AllSheMakes - Gabriela Manfredi
Where Are The Women Artist? by ArtgirlRising - Directory Artist: 2020-Current: Wherearthewomenartist- Gabriela Manfredi
Exhibits:
2022 Long Island Biennial | The Heckscher Museum of Art
2022 Somewhere Beyond | Solo Show, Curated by Criterion Contemporary - Long Hall Gallery @ Toast Patchogue NY
2021 MOCA L.Ights | Projecting: Survey of Contemporary Works - MOCA LI, Patchogue NY
2021 NextUP Pop-Up Exhibit - MOCA LI, Patchogue NY
2021 I’m Speaking: The Language of Art curated Alicia Puig, CEO & Co-Founder of PxP Contemporary.
2021 Table-Side Art Experience II - The Betterman Distilling CO
2020 I Was Here: An Exhibit of Womxn in Photography curated by Lauren Zaknoun on https://www.allshemakes.org/exhibitions.
2017 Refractions, Group Show, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
2017 Photofeast, Group Show, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
2017 2nd Installment New York Art Collective , The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Lines of Sight, Group Show, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
2015 Student Art Exhibition at Suffolk Community College (Grant Campus)
2014 Student Art Exhibition at Suffolk Community College (Grant Campus)