Gabrielle Guthrie / Hidden Objects

Gabrielle Guthrie is a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist whose work bridges abstract painting, drawing, collage, and three-dimensional paintings. She combines hard-edged yet organic forms with repurposed materials to explore how we create, consume, and connect with the social, built, and natural environments. Her process-driven approach embraces improvisation, layering, and material play.

Inspired by color, travel, poetry, and time spent in nature, Gabrielle sees her practice as a way of making sense of the world.. Whether through folded canvases, monoprinting, or layered surfaces, her work deals with questions of chance, perception, intimacy, disconnection, and memory. 

Gabrielle holds an MFA in Product Design from Stanford, and her background as a designer and user researcher informs her artistic practice. She draws from her experience studying relationships, simplifying complexity, and shaping interactions to create work that challenges assumptions and opens space for reflection and empathy.

This collection of small, mixed-media paintings explores quantum entanglement as a poetic condition, the mysterious way two distant things can remain connected and responsive to each other’s presence. In physics, entanglement describes an invisible bond across distance. 

Each painting is monoprinted with plastic bags, leaving delicate, unpredictable textures that suggest both trace and presence, echoing the ephemeral yet enduring quality of entangled connections and then built up through layers of intuitive markmaking with paint, oil pastels, and oil sticks.

The use of multiple canvases within each artwork creates a visual dialogue, with separate surfaces carrying their own gestures and textures while ultimately completing one another. This fragmentation and recombination mirrors the duality of entanglement, where distinct entities form a single, though separable, system.

The modest scale of the paintings invites intimacy. Viewers are encouraged to lean in and discover the delicate marks and subtle irregularities that pulse across the panels. These quiet details reflect the unspoken forces that shape relationships, subtle interactions that are felt more than seen.