Ricardo Gonzalez
Born 1977 in Mexico City
Lives and works in New York
Launch :
Wednesday 26 June 2024 6-8pm
Emma Peel Room
266 Broome St, New York, NY 10013
Ricardo has created 50 unique drawings.
Each drawing is accompanied by a numbered and signed zine.
$40 at the launch $100 after
Ricardo Gonzalez utilizes a limited palette, simplified mark-making, and sense of humor to explore the language of expressionistic painting and drawing. His work draws on his own automatic drawings, urban wall scribbles that populate his environment in Mexico City and New York, and celebrates a recurrence of Art Brut via the likes of Jean Dubuffet, Karel Appel, and A.R. Penck. His fast manic drawing suggests an intuitive child-like doodle. Fragmented figures with grimaces and smirks frequent Gonzalez’s work invoking a character all too familiar that is deep rooted in our collective unconscious, a sort of savage full of uninhibited energy that could easily be found in early rock n' roll or the tales of early outlaw blues songs. The paintings ricochet between the sublime and the nihilistic, creating a tacit dialogue between satirical cartoon and evocative painterly gesture. Gonzalez elevates seemingly cursory doodles into signifiers of pure form, medium, and process, thus propelling them into the language of art.
Ricardo Gonzalez received an MFA from New York University, and his BFA at New England School of Art & Design, Boston, MA and Madrid, Spain. He has exhibited in numerous venues in New York, Boston, Miami, Berlin, Mexico, and Belgium. Recent solo exhibitions include “Todas Partes” at Daniela Elbahara Mexico City and “The Shape I’m In” at Asya Geisberg Gallery New York. Upcoming exhibitions include a solo presentation at the Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro, Mexico in August 2024. He is a recipient of the Martin Wong Scholarship Award in Painting, and his work has been reviewed in the Wall Street Journal, Time Out New York, Galerie Magazine, Art F City, and Pas un Autre.
