gabriela silva myers-lipton

i’m incredibly honored to announce that my work “COMING UNDONE” has been selected to be in the deYoung Museum! it will be on display from september 30th to january 7th. i’d love if you stopped by 😎💓! bay area folks are able to see the exhibition for FREE on september 30th & saturdays!!! #deYoungOpen #ThedeYoungOpen @deyoungmuseum 45 x 57 inches, paint pen & acrylic paint on bristol paper "COMING UNDONE" was created during a time of profound loss, following the passing of 6 family members. The title references the final conversation I shared with my Godfather, a few days before he passed. That night, he inhabited a state of prophetic disarray. He lay in the living room: his brain swollen, his body ravaged by several types of cancer and shouted “I’M COMING UNDONE!”.  The artwork itself depicts a figure “coming undone” (e.i. dying), evaporating back into the bright pixelated static of the universe, mirroring our bodies' natural reintegration with the earth. The pixels serve as atoms.. our building blocks! The left hand bears inverted colors, echoing my first experience with death, my grandfather’s heart failure. The left arm often goes numb prior to a heart attack, giving some uncanny hint of what’s about to occur. Behind the figure, a spiral emerges, a reflection of my personal concept of memory— a coil, with each year spiraling gently atop the next. This artwork is part of a broader series titled "The Great Merging." Within a period marked by profound losses, I sought solace through face to face confrontation with death. I’ve observed that death has taken up a strange residence in contemporary society. It’s portrayed as an unnatural, unsolved phenomenon, one that we must spend every day attempting to escape, one that emphasizes the finality and loss it brings. I call back to the Symmetry Argument, posited by 3rd Century BC philosopher Epicurus, which reminds us that our attitudes towards birth and death should be identical. Just as we do not fear the mysterious state that existed prior to our birth, we should not fear the mysterious state that will exist after our death.

it was a good 4 years!!!! lots of late nights n lots of painting (duh!) #art #artist #fyp

brain out the belly… 43x65 inches. acrylic paint, glitter on paper..🎇 for my great merging series…. been enchanted with experiences that allow you to fade into the body. a mushy gushy euphoria… post-life…. whatever that means! innards… glow sticks.. how we exist in our body, how we leave it.. or if we ever even do! i don’t have all the words for it yet. #art #fyp #painting #delphianopencall

gonna paint one of these frames soon…. which one should it be?!(instagram messed up the quality of thisssss ughhh 😓) #art #artist #fyp #artandtechnology #tech

something about staring into your lovers eyes and the gap between who i am and who you think i am. #art #artist #fyp

getting absurd with it. ive been taking a break from the trump work. partially just cuz i’m working on a large sparkly version of one rn… stayed tuned for that… but also the world is tiring enough without having to draw this fucking guy and his peen all the time. but i like the work and i do miss making it quickly to process these cultural moments. so perhaps more of this fucking guy and his peen on the way. #fyp #politics #art

u can see this piece @tiat.place until saturday night!! closing night partyyyy on march 7th!!! come byyyy ;) u know i love a good process versus the results vid lol. what do u think of this piece?! #art #viralvideos #fyp #artandtechnology #artist

i’ve been really attracted to PCB designs recently. they’re digital blueprints that route energy and signals thru circuit boards. they remind me of our nervous systems. they’re quite stunning! #animation #artist #fyp #viralvideos #art

self portrait i made while recovering from wisdom tooth surgery. so insanely cool how complicated our bodies are. and how we can heal ourselves! #art #artist #fyp

silva tooth got four wisdom teeth out this week! painted this weird little self portrait to keep me busyyyyy. what a surreal experience! the body never ceases to amaze me. it’s why i’m sooo obsessed w our internal systems.…. today is the 5th day of recovery and i’m feeling good! #art #artist #fyp

new piece for @minimartsf ’s annual 99$ managers special show. go check it out/buy it this thursday!!! #art #artist #fyp

maybe i shouldn’t be making a joke about this, but holy shit! what is going on. alsooooooo, i know the horse thing has been proven untrue. but dang, what a rumor! i had to document it. obviously, trump is in the epstein files. he knew about the girls. #art #artist #fyp