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Artist Statement

"It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world."

~George Orwell, 1984

In my painting, I have chosen to create works that infuse the language of abstraction to an art-making process that is intrinsically informed by issues of the era in which we live. For me, the pure abstract image conveys the nuances of culture and emerges from a process of total and complete autonomous action. Narrative transforms into an impulse that is guided by intuition, reason, and the will to express the experiences of like into lin, texture, color and shape.

The method in which I have created my paintings is profoundly affected byt he sheet fluidity and absolute sensitivity of automatis abstract painting. Therefore, these works are expressions of my trust in the power of chance and impuse to imbue the pictorial surface with expressions that are a direct minifestation of my experiences with the act of painting.

Visual form is the vehicle by which these concepts are developed and the process of abstract painting is one where I can perpetually and avidly seek meaning. It is in thei search that an insight into artistic integraity becomes the ultimate soure for revelation and profundity

Quintin Gonzalez

To see more of Gonzalez's latest body of work, please visit http://www.quintingonzalez.com/

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Quintin Gonzalez

Quintin.Gonzalez@ucdenver.edu
303.556.8837

Associate Professor of Fine Arts
BFA, Kansas City Art Institute
MFA, Yale University.

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