^welcome

My name is Daniella Brito and I am a Dominican-American artist, writer, and curator from New York City.

^{Growing up, when I wasn’t in school I was running around my local playground in Washington Heights. Climbing on top of the monkey bars and chasing friends in endless games of manhunt, I learned the architectures of improvisation — the spontaneous, ever-adaptive ritual of play that makes public space so seductive. These days, in my painting practice, I use my fingers alongside tools like sponges, brushes, erasers, and other found materials to chronicle collective activations of public space, developing a language of abstraction that draws from these animated landscapes and the possibilities that simmer in their mutable infrastructures.

My curiosity for improvisation in everyday life extends to my writing and curating. I program and write about subversive practices found in queer performance, filmmaking, and visual art histories. From the poetics of collage, to the stories-within-stories often told in experimental theater, I am interested in annotative and accumulative modalities — the kind of storytelling that recycles and converges foreign parts into new expressions.}