Gabriela Machado Brazilian, 1960
acrylic on linen
44.88 x 68.11 in
Gabriela Machado’s paintings reveal fragments of her daily life. The scenes, colors, and forms that pass through her days are her primary source of inspiration; since 2017, she has used them to build pictorial narratives with the quality of a logbook. Her larger works, such as "Catuaba" (2025), open onto a more bodily scale, marked by gestural expressiveness and rapid, organic processes through which the artist externalizes feelings and states of mind. Her smaller paintings, by contrast, move in the other direction: from the outside in, bringing perceptions of her surroundings – like impressions gleaned from landscapes – onto the canvas. Machado opened the gallery’s 2026 program with the exhibition "Ainda bem, atravessei as nuvens".