Future Circuit
Tamara Gonzales
November 5 - 18, 2022
Star Catcher, 2021
Acrylic, spray paint, and pastel on canvas
72 x 60 in (182.9 x 152.4 cm)
COUNTY is pleased to present Future Circuit, a solo exhibition featuring new works by Tamara Gonzlaes.
How we move on the earth: walking, standing, running, dancing, pondering, remembering — steps to get lost, to find oneself, looking down at where are feet are placed. Dizzy? spiral, rollin’, spinning, timelessness, déjà vu, eternity in motion, staying grounded, adapting to the changing landscape on both the macro and micro level. Fate and personal choice.
“For Gonzales, art is a form of healing. These rituals, ceremonies, and initiations unite both body and mind in ways that involve a more intense physical and mental participation, flexibility, and release that we can only imagine. The healing brought about from these experiences, and from her extensive traveling which informs her perception of the world and her place in it, perpetuates a flood of images that provides endless sources of birth and rebirth. Her work is bold, intuitive, and viscerally personal. We can feel the presence of a multi-faceted American culture, uniquely blending diasporic cultures, their knowledge, and their practices into our contemporary and immediate lives.” The Brooklyn Rail: Tamara Gonzales: Horrible Beauty - Amanda Millet-Sorsa
Tamara Gonzales was born in Madera, CA in 1959 and lives in Brooklyn, NY. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Vermont College ADP in Montpelier, VT in 2005 and an Associate in Applied Science, Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design, New York, NY in 1990. Gonzales’s work has been featured in exhibitions such as Orpheus, PS1, Long Island City, NY (2007); 99¢, Jersey City Museum & Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ (2007); Current/Undercurrent, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (1997); and Cool Girls, PS122, New York, NY (1996). Gonzales is a prominent participant in the community of artist-run spaces and artist-driven projects in New York City, and her work is held in public collections including the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. She has been awarded residencies such as Center of Contemporary Art, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain (2012); International Artists Exchange Program, Basel, Switzerland (2008); Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi, India (2001); Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (1999); and Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (1997).
Logan R. Beitmen