Gisela Insuaste's work is based on memories of real and imagined landscapes that are precarious yet beautiful. By playing with scale, line, imagery, and diverse materials, she creates drawings, paintings and large-scale installations that map out and emphasize the subtle and quirky topologies of urban spaces: they are shifty, unstable, and ambiguous, and reflect the physical, emotional, and socio-political charged spaces we live in.

These spaces consider the dynamic yet fragile relationship we have with the natural and man-made architectural forms that surround us. Her travels continue to inform her work, where a shift in location, in emotion, in activity, give rise to new ways of looking and interpreting.

Gisela received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and her BA in Anthropology & Studio Art from Dartmouth College. She is an artist, educator, and arts adminstrator in Chicago.