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Ricardo Gonzalez utilizes a limited palette, simplified mark-making, and sense of humor to explore the language of abstract painting. Mutinous figures with grimaces and smirks frequent Gonzalez's canvases, resulting from residual memories of childhood comics such as MAD, skateboard graphics, and teenage doodles, as well as 70's and 80's German painters. The paintings are a rediscovery of the artist's first interests in art, and celebrate the artist's hand, letting the process be transparent as well as allowing errors and chance. Their large scale makes the paintings objects of art and transforms these doodle-like images into pure shapes, paint, material, and process.
Ricardo Gonzalez was born in Mexico City and lives and works in New York. undefined