Wayne Gonzales
{{Short description|American painter}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Wayne Gonzales
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1957}}
| birth_place = New Orleans, Louisiana, US
| alma_mater = University of New Orleans
}}
Wayne Gonzales (born 1957) is an American painter, whose work confronts the conversations between photography, history, and memory.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Guggenheim Collection Online, Wayne Gonzales|url=https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/wayne-gonzales|access-date=|website=Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum|publisher=The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation}} He is based in New York City.
Early life and education
Wayne Gonzales was born in 1957 in New Orleans, Louisiana.{{Cite web|date=May 23, 2017|title=Prospect New Orleans Announces Participating Artists for Its Fourth Edition|url=https://www.artforum.com/news/prospect-new-orleans-announces-participating-artists-for-its-fourth-edition-68597|access-date=2021-02-24|website=Artforum.com|language=en-US}}{{Cite book|last1=Eklund|first1=Douglas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Sh9tDwAAQBAJ&q=%22wayne+gonzales%22+1947&pg=PA173|title=Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy|last2=Alteveer|first2=Ian|last3=Brown|first3=Meredith A.|last4=Miller|first4=John|last5=Olmsted|first5=Kathryn|last6=Saunders|first6=Beth|last7=Lethem|first7=Jonathan|date=2018-09-17|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|isbn=978-1-58839-659-4|pages=172|language=en}} He grew up on the same street as Lee Harvey Oswald, which inspired his later art work.{{Cite news|last=Sargent|first=Antwaun|date=2018-11-01|title=Seven Artists on the Warhol Influence (Published 2018)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/arts/design/seven-artists-on-the-warhol-influence.html|access-date=2021-02-24|issn=0362-4331}} Gonzales earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1985, from the University of New Orleans.
He moved to New York City in the late 1980s. Early in his career Gonzales worked as a studio assistant for artist Peter Halley. His first solo exhibition was in 1997.
Work
Gonzales' paintings depict scenes of American Culture by using sources of imagery often taken from mass media and the internet.{{Cite news|url=https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/24324|title=Waiting Crowd|date=2008-01-01|newspaper=Guggenheim|language=en-US|access-date=2016-12-15}} He uses factual components to find instinctive connections to abstraction through painting. Up close, the paintings appear pixelated; once glanced from a far the pixelation comes together and forms an intricate image much like Op Art.{{Cite news|last=Smith|first=Roberta|date=2010-08-05|title=Varieties of Abstraction (Published 2010)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/06/arts/design/06abstract.html|access-date=2021-02-24|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news|date=2009-11-26|title=Art in Review (Published 2009)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/27/arts/design/27galleries.html|access-date=2021-02-24|issn=0362-4331}} Gonzales became well known for presenting socially and political imagery, such as his paintings based around the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.{{Cite web|date=2009-10-07|title=Wayne Gonzales: Light To Dark / Dark To Light|url=https://noma.org/wayne-gonzales-light-to-dark-dark-to-light/|access-date=2021-02-24|website=New Orleans Museum of Art|language=en-US}} This body of work gained much acknowledgement when it opened at Paula Cooper Gallery in 2001.{{Cite news|date=2001-04-29|title=Art Listings (Published 2001)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/29/arts/art-listings.html|access-date=2021-02-24|issn=0362-4331}}
His work has traveled to galleries and museums across the world where he has exhibited in group and solo shows.
= Collections =
- Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, United States{{Cite web|url=https://www.albrightknox.org/artworks/19988-twelve|title=Twelve|website=www.albrightknox.org|access-date=2016-12-15}}
- Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, United States{{Cite web|title=Carousel Club|url=https://www.dma.org/collection/artwork/wayne-gonzales/carousel-club|access-date=2016-12-15|website=Dallas Museum of Art}}
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, New York, United States
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, United States
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States
References
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