ABOUT ME

Gina Giles is a painter and fiber artist with a background in photography and digital art. Since her graduation from Moore College of Art & Design where she studied Photography and Digital Arts. Gina has honed into a very personal approach to artmaking that blurs the lines between her more straightforward two-dimensional pictorial style and her trail-blazing interpretation of fiber art. Drawing inspiration from her wide-ranging inner states and her peaceful communion with nature, Gina manifests a vibrant representation of her reality as an African American woman, feeling her way through adulthood and the nuances involved in one's personal take on femininity, empowerment, independence and vulnerability. Gina's masterful choice of color combinations and materials, often sourced during her daily errands, brings to expressive life faces and moods, nature and artifice.