ABOUT
Gabriella D’Italia (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist and writer who believes that our true stories lie at the horizon between spirit and body, vision and the material world.
As an internationally-exhibited, award-winning fine artist, Gabriella’s work explores home, nature, female identity and the contributions of these environments to our human wisdom and sustenance. She is best known for her highly inquisitive, pro-craft, feminist fiber works and multimedia collage. Visually, Gabriella layers imagery, patterns, and media. In doing so, she embraces complex meaning based on the truth of material experience rather than inherited narratives, emotions, expectations, and cultural norms. A marriage of eclectic and warm minimalism, Gabriella’s works emphasize inexact repetition, a material (embodied) experience of time, and a new-feminist conception of storytelling based largely on intimacy with nature and everyday things. These themes are explored throughout her book, Getting Dressed In The Dark: An Artist’s Way Home, (Unsolicited Press 2025) an artist’s memoir that traces a path home after personal crisis. Her work has been exhibited at biennials, salons, embassies, and galleries internationally.
Gabriella grew up in Morristown, NJ. After receiving her BA in Philosophy and the History of Science and Mathematics through the Great Books program at St. John’s College, she moved to Boston and then Maine, where for two decades she immersed herself in costume design, quilting, leadership roles in nationally recognized fine craft organizations, and teaching courses on creativity. She holds an MFA in Intermedia from the University of Maine, Orono.
Gabriella lives and works outside of New York City with her family.