Marianela was born in Rawson, Argentina, on November 1, 1975, and studied Fine Arts at the National University of the IUNA, and the Prilidiano Pueyrredon School (Buenos Aires). Between 1995 and 2007, she exhibited her work in her native country (Rawson and Buenos Aires), Spain (Girona, Barcelona, Menorca), and once at the Art France in Lavaur, France.

Her work can be defined as raw, visceral, expressive, lyrical, human, and emotional. Through it, we discover a solid background in Fine Arts and the influence of contemporary artists (she graduated from the Piliryano Pueyrredon National School in Buenos Aires around 2002). We find ourselves before a work with a lived experience and diverse techniques. Her dry, energetic strokes stem from her beginnings: when she worked in India ink and black and white predominated. It is a descriptive and emotional graphic style with which she defines men and women, always direct and communicative. Marianela Gallardo is an artist of intelligent, rational, geometric composition, with organized directions that invite you to go through her paintings in a regressive manner, thus achieving a movement that gives life to her painting. The force present in her images comes from the intense strokes, from the vibrant vision of "regrets", from the new solutions, from the sculptural character, from the monumentality that accentuates filling the canvas with the figure, from the distortions of hands and feet: a symbolist iconography that goes beyond the artistic baggage (cubism, Mexican muralism, spirituality)

Using colored backgrounds created on the canvas, and through the artist's uninhibited action, she creates an informalist space in which she searches for the origin of a figure, a body defined by the movement of curves that float in a chromatic sea that later becomes skin. Around it, the white space envelops the form and reverses the figure-ground process. But there is always more to Gallardo. It is curious that in order to achieve the personal and unmistakable character of her work, she dispenses with formulas and the repetition of a specific formula: it is rather "the hand and the soul", which in each exhibition offers us a different experience, a new emotion, the new symbolism of an eternal story that is expressed with the strength of an artist.