Gilda Tenopala Gutierrez (the Siren)
@gilt · Performance Art. · Fayetteville AR.
Bio
Gilda Tenopala Gutiérrez is a Mexican (1996) interdisciplinary artist based in Fayetteville AR. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Interdisciplinary Sculpture with a concentration in ceramics (2020) and is currently pursuing an MFA in Sculpture and Experimental Media at the University of Arkansas (2027).
Tenopala Gutiérrez was Awarded as an Artist Member by the James Renwick Alliance of American Craft (2020).
Her work has been shown internationally in numerous galleries, cultural venues and magazines. Including Los Pinos Cultural Complex, la Antigua Academia de San Carlos, Casa Versalles, La Quiñonera, Proyectos Publicos, New Women 's Space, ZXY Gallery, Mujeristas and Oye Drumm.
She has developed a post-colonial ecofeminist/animist art practice by researching the spiritual, natural, historical, chemical and physical use of wild and industrial nature. Exploring the possibility to reintegrate with the Silent Matter, as well as reconnecting with the spirit of all things. She creates experiences, spaces and objects that serve as foregrounds to fulfill biological and ecological cycles. Aiding us to recognize ourselves as victims, perpetrators, and survivors of the ecosystemic violence we have internalized by living inside of these systems.
Her interdisciplinary practice includes, ceramics, installation art, metalsmithing, metal fabrication, time-based media, ready-mades, drawing, collage, photo-sculpture and writing .
In her most recent work she deals with themes of love, guilt, erotica, boundaries and relationships. She uses water’s capacity to change the color, texture and physical qualities of other substances as an analogy in how relationships can affect the ways we interact with space, materials, politics or any other socio-economic aspects of life.
In this body of work she also explores life as an ongoing material. Through her scores & post-scores she redacts relational experiences that are aimed to be performed and shift how we connect with others and ourselves.