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GABRIELLE ROSE DE SANTI

(XENOVIRUS)

Miss Gabrielle De Santi has had an appreciation for art since a very young age.  Her passion for art grew throughout grade school and eventually led her to the fine arts program at Millersville University.  She has taken a variety of art classes in drawing, figure study, painting, graphic design, fine metals and jewelry, bronze casting, sculpture, and ceramics, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a focus in Sculpting.  Gabrielle has also taken several anthropology courses, natural science courses, and creative writing courses during her college experience, all which have helped inspire and further develop her artwork.

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While Gabrielle studied at Millersville, she was introduced to convention culture through her participation in the University's anime and video game club, AniMU.  The club helped open a new creative outlet for her hobbies and interests, exposing her to the world of cosplay and special effects make up.  Convention culture provided her with new and unique opportunities to meet and learn from new people that had similar interests as her.  Gabrielle now regularly visits conventions that celebrate various forms of pop culture and has happily taken to the art of prop fabrication and sfx make-up through the participation of cosplay.  These conventions indulge her interests in comics, video games, Japanese anime, books, cinema, and animation.

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Throughout Gabrielle's life, she has enjoyed incorporating her interests into her personal artwork, building off the inspiration she gets from her love of these various forms of pop culture.  The concept artists of video games and movies, for example, are a huge inspiration and motivation in her work.  The bioluminescent world of Pandora in James Cameron's Avatar;  the terrifying Xenomorph creature in Alien;  the massive Kaiju and Jaegers of Pacific Rim;  the expansive creature design of the Pokemon franchise;  the diverse characters of the Marvel Universe... all of the immense effort put into the characters, places, and creatures of these media never cease to amaze and push Gabrielle to create her own original designs and stories.  The complicated level of thought and dedication put into these creations is what she strives to achieve with her own work.​  As a result, themes such as mythology, fantasy, horror, and science-fiction always find their way into her work and help inspire new worlds for her to explore and expand with her creativity.

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