Many years had passed since artist Daniela Matchael saw for the first time, looking out of an airplane window, the round fields of crops that would inspire her to produce a series of paintings. While living in Texas, the basic means of nutrition of this country fed the artist’s inspiration to embark on an artistic journey that followed a path to portray humanity’s Basic Needs, Spirituality and the Other, or the World. This would also be a literal voyage, since the artist and her art would travel to several states in the United States and across the ocean showing the pieces born out of this experience. Throughout this decade Matchael’s work was shown in New York, several places in Europe and in Latin America.

Three series produced during the past decade will be represented in this exhibition. The first, “Fields Collection,” with most pieces just arriving from Europe for the opening, was produced in the beginning of the decade. The second, in the artist’s words,  a series of “transitional and spiritual paintings” or “Koi Series,” range from expressive to quasi representational pieces. Finally, part of a larger project with non-profit organizations in the favelas (shanty towns) of Rio de Janeiro, “Favelas” give a perspective of the artist’s more current work.

Matchael uses color and oils to render motion and fluidity. Whether through the experience of the gentle open circular lines of yellow-orange or colorful koi fish gently swimming  on a pond of purple, blue, red, teal and yellow waters, or the fluid patterns that one sees revealed while looking at tiny windows of others’ homes on a hillside, the shapes seem to sway on an almost unnoticeable manner.