VIEWING DATES I SATURDAY 6TH OF JUNE TO WEDNESDAY 17TH OF JUNE
OFFICIAL CELEBRATION I SATURDAY 13TH OF JUNE 5-7PM
This exhibition is part of a duo solo event with Raina Thomson
ABOUT MARISABEL
Born in 1973 in Caracas, Venezuela. Resides and works in Sydney, Australia.
Marisabel Gonzalez is a Latin American contemporary artist whose work reflects the complexity of being human. Her practice grows out of her lived experiences as both a doctor and a sonographer, bringing together the emotional interior of memory with the clinical lens she developed in medicine. This way of seeing has formed a visual language that is both tender and precise, guided by her understanding that the body carries our stories in ways that are both visible and hidden.
Her paintings return to ideas of connection, healing, and shared humanity. She begins with the body and allows colour, gesture, and texture to lead toward something universal. Layers of paint, stitched threads, bandages, and fragments of text echo the processes of mending and transformation. Ultrasound textures and the idea of palimpsest appear throughout her work, underscoring her interest in surfaces where earlier marks remain as quiet traces of a lived history.
Marisabel has presented solo exhibitions at Gallery Lane Cove (2025), Hake House in Sydney (2023 and 2024), Curl Curl Creative Space in Sydney (2020), and Arianne Paffrath in Düsseldorf (2017). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Parliament House of NSW and the Manly Art Gallery and Museum in Sydney (2019), as well as at ASD in Den Haag (2017), among others.
Her recent recognition includes finalist selections for the Paddington Art Prize (2021), the Northern Beaches Environmental Art Prize (2024 and 2025), and the St. Columba’s Art Prize (2025 and 2026). She won the Collabor8 Women’s Art Prize (2023) and was selected as a semi-finalist for the Luca Biennale Cartasia in Italy (2024). Her work is held in public and private collections, including Barclays Private Bank in Sydney, the Stiftung Kleine Kunstdialog West/Ost in Düsseldorf, and the Axicorp Corporate Collections in Singapore and London, as well as private collections worldwide.
Marisabel is represented by Hake House in Sydney, Australia.
ABOUT THIS BODY OF WORK
For this exhibition, Marisabel Gonzalez presents a selection of works from her ongoing series of paintings created in a summer studio without walls, exposed to the elements and shaped by the conditions around them. Wind, rain and heat became part of the process, leaving traces that remain visible in the finished works.
The word Threshold suggests a place of transition and challenges the common assumption that change is something dramatic. These works developed in the space between what has been and what is yet to come. Their transformation happened slowly, through accumulation, exposure, and time. That quietness feels very true to the paintings' atmosphere, which invites us to consider change not as something to resist, but as a natural part of becoming.