'Liberation' by David Vincent Gonzales

Throughout my artistic career, I have primarily created realistic/impressionistic works. Though this has brought me great success and accolades, I have an inner pull to create intuitive abstractions that explore color and movement through time
and space. This body of work is purely experimental and reflects my need to probe into a different dimension of my craft.
My artistic process is a journey toward complete liberation. Having an end result is the antithesis of creating. I am deeply drawn to the raw beauty of nature and its elemental forces, abandoned and disparaged material things, the faded, the tampered with, the elusive markings on physical objects, the torn into, the scrapes, trash, and the expansion of life that is eternally recreating itself. These fascinations serve as the springboard from which all my works emerge. I have no direct goal other than to devote myself to a limitless process without expectation.

Artist Bio:

David Vincent Gonzales was born on February 3, 1971, on a U.S. Air Force Base in Wiesbaden, Germany. He grew up in Santa Fe, N.M., enjoying the benefits of belonging to a large, close-knit extended family. His family has been well-rooted in the area for 5 generations, which includes many well-known artists, such as wood carver Ben Ortega and weavers Jose and Pedro Rodriguez from the Canyon Road District. “As far back as I can remember, I have been working with art materials to create something based upon my observations.” (David Vincent Gonzales)

It was evident in his youth that Gonzales was a gifted and talented artist. He attended St.Catherine’s Indian School in Santa Fe and began exhibiting his work at the young age of 12. By the time he was 17, his work was displayed in the Smithsonian and simultaneously received the New Mexico Governor’s Award. These accolades led to his art being featured in the Washington Tunnel in D.C. and the Governor's Mansion in Santa Fe, N.M. He was chosen by the Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation to attend a two-week intensive creative program, which shaped Gonzales' decision to become a practicing artist. After high school, Gonzales received a full scholarship to the San Antonio Art Institute. A few years later, he attended the Kansas City Art Institute. It was at this time, in 1993, that David’s abstractions were chosen to be in an exhibit
that included works by Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Rauschenberg, and many other famous artists. His works have been included in several National Museum Traveling Exhibits and an International Exhibit where his art was displayed with the work of Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf, who are famous for their contribution to the Pop Art Movement.
Throughout David's career, his artwork has received numerous prestigious awards, and he has been recognized as the official artist for several national and international festivals and sporting events. He has a strong passion to help others and has donated his artwork to various charitable foundations. A few of these events include collaborating with Olympian World Cup alpine ski racer Lindsey Vonn, Tour de France legend Greg LeMond, and Warren Miller film star, writer, director, and philanthropist Chris Anthony to help raise money for inner-city youth. He was also commissioned by The Tiger Woods Foundation to paint Tiger winning the 2019 Masters. David's early work reflects his heritage, rich in Native American and Hispanic Cultural Traditions, but quickly expanded to include many styles and a multitude of mediums. Using oils, acrylics, watercolor, pencils, pastels, wood, and bronze, He has created 2 and 3-dimensional pieces ranging from photo-realism to abstract. He masterfully expresses his fascination with relative objects moving through space and time. It is this movement of related things that unifies his diverse body of work. It is what makes his art unique and easily recognizable. His work is not a static representation of a single moment in time; rather, they are more like living entities with a past, present, and future, ever moving and unfolding. David Vincent Gonzales is the culmination of the artistic talent that has moved throughout his family for generations.

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