Fabiola Menchelli and Dannielle Tegeder

Arróniz presents Cromosfera by Fabiola Menchelli and Dannielle Tegeder.

FABIOLA MENCHELLI (Mexico City, Mexico 1983) explores essential ideas about photography from a wide variety of contemporary strategies and experimental techniques. Using the language of abstraction, the work seeks to expand ways of looking through photography, its histories and processes and its multiple anchors in reality.

She received her MFA in Visual Arts from Massachusetts College of Art and her BA in Digital Visual Arts from Victoria University. Her most recent exhibitions include, Dark Moves: Fabiola Menchelli & Heather Watkings, curated by Stephanie Snyder, Cooley Gallery, (Portland, OR 2022), I carry all the names I'm given, Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo (CDMX, 2022), Parallax, ProxyCo Gallery (New York, 2021), Under the Blue Sun, Marshall Contemporary (Los Angeles, 2021). She is part of the Biennial of Photography in Jinan, China (2022), Helio, Espacio DD77, Venice (2022), A Composition of Possibilities, Houston Center For Photography, Houston (2021), Un grano en el ojo de la Montaña, Fundación MARSO, CDMX (2019), Approaching Abstraction, Blain Southern, London (2019), This Must Be The Place, Paris Photo (2018) and, Interior / Exterior, Photo Dubai (2016).

She has been invited to participate in various artist residencies such as Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Casa Wabi and Casa Nano. She received the Fulbright - García Robles Scholarship (2011-2013), FONCA-CONACYT for study abroad (2011-2013), Massart Dean's Award (2012-2013), the Acquisition Award of the XVI Biennial of Photography of the Centro de la Imagen (2014) and the National System of Creators of Art of FONCA (2019-2022). Her work is part of the JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, Ralph Lauren Collection, Colección Don Julio, Eskenazi Museum of Art Collection, Colección Zarur, el Centro de la Imagen, among others.Her most recent book published by ESPAC is entitled Desdoble, Fabiola Menchelli & Andrea Chapela, ESPAC Mexico (2022). His work has been included in Pictures, ed. Ken Miller, There Editions, USA (2022), and in publications such as Aperture, OSMOS, Terremoto, L'Officiel, Glasstire, among others.

He has taught visual arts at public and private institutions including Centro de la Imagen (CDMX), The School of Photography and Visual Media (CDMX), Reed College (Portland), Cincinnati University (Cincinnati, OH), Universidad Centro (CDMX), Escuela Adolfo Prieto del Centro de las Artes (Monterrey), Massachusetts College of Art and Design (Boston) and Universidad Iberoamericana (CDMX). In 2020, Menchelli developed the Círculo de Crítica de Obra, an online program for emerging Latin American artists that seeks to generate a horizontal community of peers to support the development of artistic projects. The Circle awards 10 full scholarships each year thanks to its sponsors.

DANNIELLE TEGEDER is a New York-based artist whose practice is grounded on painting but also extends to drawing, wall works, sculpture, installation, animation, music, artist books, conceptual strategies, and writing.

Throughout her career, her work has engaged with the history of modern painting and architecture, drawing from the multi-disciplinary spirit of 20th century art practices while seeking to find new experimental approaches. She has often developed collaborations to create dialogues between abstraction and music.

Her work engages with current debates around abstraction, design, and utopian thinking, often exploring the role that social and urban systems play in shaping contemporary life. More recently, in both individual and collaborative work, her practice has centered on topics around feminism, alternative pedagogies, and the spiritual. In 2020 she co-founded the two-person collective Hilma’s Ghost

Gallery participating in GAMA WEEK from September 19 to 22, 2024.