Gabriella Carboni is a painter and educator located in Los Angeles, California. Originally from Boston, MA, she received her undergraduate degree in Studio Art from Skidmore College, and her MFA in Painting from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Gabriella has exhibited her work within the US - in Michigan, California, New York, and Massachusetts - as well as Internationally - in Iceland, Italy, and Scotland. She currently teaches at ArtCenter College of Design and Armory Center for the Arts. Gabriella is also a council member for Visual Arts Scotland. Her work focuses on intimacy, kinship, comfort, touch, and connection. She investigates how we interact with one another, how we support and care for each other, and how we grow apart or grow together over time. The forms she invents through drawing, painting, and sculpture strive to demonstrate human feeling and empathy, while contemplating how to portray tenderness and a seeking of solace. Most recently, Carboni’s work has drawn inspiration from tectonic plates and bodies hugging.

Carboni’s work is currently on view alongside Lauren Anaïs Hussey in their two-person exhibition, If We Get A House, on view at SHAG through September 16th.