Giannell investigates topics of identity, mass-displacement, imprisonment, genocide, and afterlife in her painting and drawing practice, interrogating systemic structures that restrict and reshape the body, vision, and perception, often reffering to architectural structures and landscapes. Operating as deep and expansive fields, Giannell's works utilize subtractive and additive haptic mark-making processes to interweave elements of presence and absence within the language of abstraction. 

 

Giannell has been an Artist in Residence with the Marek Maria Pienkowski Foundation in Poland researching the Holocaust as well as the inaugural Artist in Residence with the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project teaching in men's prisons. Her work has received multiple awards, including the Florita Eichel Memorial Purchase Award from the Evansville Museum of Art, History + Sciences in Evansville, IN and the Foy Gilmore Goodwyn Memorial Award from the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Montgomery, AL. Giannell's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with recent solo shows with Snow College in Ephraim, UT, Lyon College in Batesville, AR, and the Museum of Art in Orem, UT.

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Currently an Assistant Professor of Painting with Florida International University in Miami, Giannell has formerly held positions with Auburn University, Indiana University, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Utah Valley University. Giannell holds a diploma in Visual Arts from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, BFA in Painting with a minor in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and MFA in Painting from Clemson University.  

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