Tied-Up Mexican beginnings I was born in Mexico City where I grew up surrounded by the intensity and color of Mexican culture. I obtained a Graphic Design Bachelor’s Degree from Universidad de las Américas in Puebla, after which I worked as a graphic designer in Mexico. In a bid to explore a foreign land, I moved to Montreal, Canada in 2000 and that’s where I started experimenting and creating artwork, which eventually led me to explore textiles and embroidery - activities traditionally associated with women and forbidden for a boy growing up in Mexico! After seven years in Canada I moved to Texas to pursue graduate school at the University of Texas at Dallas where I am presently a candidate for an MFA in Arts and Technology.
Hidden stories One of the major themes of my work is human vulnerability. The experience of being human might be the result of unique circumstances, but underlining these circumstances is a universal quality which connects us as a species in ways we don’t always understand. From the moment we are born, that which is invisible - such as our parent’s expectations, the attitudes and beliefs they teach us, social norms, rules, regulations, fears, pain, joy, love - starts shaping who we are to become in the world. My artistic practice often involves taking these invisible things and making a visual representation out of them. I create artwork that aims to generate an experience that can go from
the intimate, with the small pieces, to the fully immersive, with the large scale installations. My goal is to make viewers aware of those structures so they can reflect on how they affect their life, both in positive and negative ways. The inspiration More than anything, there is a need inside me that drives me to create. I am constantly doing something and get restless when I’m not. I find it hard to try to pinpoint the things that inspire me, mostly because I think there are so many of them. Art would be the biggest inspiration, in particular an artist whose work is labor-intensive and obsessive in nature.
Gabriel Dawe
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