Artist: Raul Rene Gonzalez

Year Completed: 2022

Medium: acrylic on wrapped canvas

Dimensions in Inches (HxWxD): 36" x 48" x 1.5"

Shipping from: US

Artist Statement:

My work explores topics such as work, fatherhood, identity, gender roles, construction, labor, identity, pop culture, science, and abstraction. I use versatile methods of painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, performance, and dance. Whether it be storytelling through paintings and drawings or sharing imagined spaces through abstract paintings and mixed-media installations, the purpose of my work is to inspire and energize.

About the Artist

Raul Rene Gonzalez is a multidisciplinary artist who incorporates an astonishingly wide range of mediums and methods in his paintings, drawings, sculptures, clothing, murals, installations, live and recorded dance, and other performance-based work. Largely autobiographical in nature, his work explores topics such as fatherhood, gender roles, labor, identity, pop culture, science, and abstraction.

Gonzalez attended Washington University in St. Louis School of Art for two years, but later earned his B.F.A., Magna Cum Laude in Painting from the University of Houston and M.F.A. in Art from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Raul owns and operates Werk House SA, a short-term Airbnb property. He is also the Director, Curator, and Resident Artist at Clamp Light Studios & Gallery and serves as an Artist Adviser for Modern In San Antonio's Advisory Panel.

Gonzalez's work has been exhibited and featured widely throughout the United States. Since 2012, his work has been added to permanent collections such as the National Mexican Museum of Art, The National Hispanic Cultural Center Art Museum, Benson Latin American Collection, Mexic-Arte Museum, The McNay Art Museum, UTSA, Capital One Financial Services, The City of San Antonio, University Health Hospitals, and The San Antonio Art League & Museum, amongst others.

Gonzalez has been published in New American Paintings No. 162: West Issue, Harper's Magazine, Southwest Contemporary Vol. 5: Collectivity & Collaboration, The American Oxford, and Create! Magazine. Gonzalez has also been featured by Texas Monthly, Glasstire, The San Antonio Express News, La Prensa Texas, Spectrum News, The San Antonio Current, The Austin Chronicle, The Houston Chronicle, The Texas Observer, The Houston Press, and Whataburger.

Gonzalez has received numerous awards, including 2023 Houston Endowment Jones Artist Award, a 2022 Luminaria Artist Foundation Grant, Sustainable Arts Foundation Grant Award, National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, and an Individual Artist Grant from the City of San Antonio. In 2021 he was selected as San Antonio Museum of Art's inaugural Artist-in-Residence and was also selected as San Antonio Art League & Museum's 2021 Artist of the Year.

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