Gabrielle J. Poteet (b. 1999, Chattanooga, TN) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose practice is rooted in experimentation and an enduring connection between the natural world and one’s mind and body. She earned her BFA in Drawing and Painting from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia, where she served as a teaching assistant and worked with the female-led mural team Color the World Bright under the guidance of the celebrated artist and mentor Joseph Norman.
While her primary mediums include charcoal, gesso, and ink, Poteet's work extends to video, sculpture, and written word. Her love for animals—evident in her pursuit of becoming a certified wildlife rehabilitator—profoundly informs her work, weaving themes of empathy, connection, and the intricate beauty and darkness of the natural world into her creations. She highly values the physicality of creating and believes that one can explore their connection to the past and its’ influence on the present with the cathartic manipulation of materials on a surface.
Poteet has a vast menagerie of day jobs including managing galleries, personal assisting, messing around with AI Technology, rescuing pigeons, construction work, and painting murals across the U.S. She is Flagging and Scaffolding Certified and is proud of it.