SAO PAULO.- Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel announced the co-representation of Brazilian, New York-based artist Ana Cláudia Almeida, in collaboration with Quadra and Stephen Friedman Gallery. This partnership underscores a shared commitment to nurturing the artist's practice, expanding her exhibition history, and broadening her global presence.

Almeida has developed a distinctive approach to abstraction that draws on landscape and atmospheric effects, conveyed through the dense materiality of her work. Her pictorial surfaces often extend into three-dimensional space, incorporating installation-based elements. Emphasizing the relationship between gesture and matter, she works across various media, including painting, sculpture, and video, using materials such as paper, plastic, oil pastel, and paint. Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1993, Almeida recently earned her MFA from Yale University.

The material universe of Ana Cláudia Almeida is established through the manipulation of paint, plastic, oil stick, fabric, and image. The fluttering quality of her works on fabric, the accumulative and shifting character of the sculpture, and the kaleidoscopic fragmentation of her large-scale paintings transpose and translate intangible memory into matter. This dimension is felt both on the surface of the works, as Almeida allows traces of previous gestures to remain in the final form, and in a conceptual and symbolic way. Made of intense superimpositions of full and empty spaces, the abstraction that resonates in her work formally and thematically reflects layers of memory, practices, and rituals. Moving between painting, sculpture, and video, Ana Cláudia Almeida’s production confronts the ways she is shaped — or distorted — by social structures, exploring the frictions between the urban environment and systems such as religion, gender, and sexuality.

Among her most recent exhibitions are Ana Cláudia Almeida & Tadáskía, a dialogue-exhibition between the two artists held simultaneously at Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel and Quadra galleries, São Paulo, Brazil (2024); an offshoot of the exhibition Tadáskía and Ana Cláudia Almeida: A Joyner/Giuffrida Visiting Artists Program at the Nevada Museum of Art, Nevada, United States (2024). Among her solo shows are Guandu Paraguaçu Piraquara, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel – Carpintaria, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2023); Buracos, Crateras e Abraços, Quadra, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2021); Wasapindorama, Fundação de Arte de Niterói, Niterói, Brazil (2018).

The artist also participated in the group exhibitions Ensaio sobre a Paisagem, Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil (2024); Olhe bem as montanhas, Quadra, São Paulo, Brazil (2024); Essas Pessoas na Sala de Jantar, Casa Museu Eva Kablin, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2023); Crônicas Cariocas, Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2021); and Casa Carioca, Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2021). Her works are part of the collections of Museu de Arte do Rio, Instituto Inhotim, and Sesc Rio de Janeiro.