Evan Lurie Gallery

Erik Gonzales

BORN

October 3^rd, 1973 in Albuquerque, New Mexico

EDUCATION

1996
BFA, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
University of Salamanca, Spain, Fine Arts and Literature

1995
Complutense University of Madrid, Spanish Literature and History

RESIDENCIES

2009
Can Serrat, El Bruc, Spain

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010
Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT, “Ex Voto”

2009
Brett Wesley Gallery, Las Vegas, NV, “Art and Artifice”

2008
Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, GA, “Symbiotic Relation”
Pamela Skinner/Gwenna Howard Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA, “Paintings by Erik Gonzales”

2002
Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA, “Paintings by Erik Gonzales”
Momus Gallery, Atlanta, GA, “Erik Gonzales”

2001
Victoria Boyce Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ and Tucson, AZ, “Erik Gonzales, recent paintings”

1997
Gallery B.A.I., New York, NY, “Erik Gonzales”

1995
Art One Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, “Recent Paintings”
Art One Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, “Elysian”

1994
Art One Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, “Earth, Body, Soul”

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010
Evan Lurie Gallery, Carmel, IN
AAF, New York, NY
San Francisco Fine Art Fair, San Francisco, CA
Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, GA,
Costello Childs Contemporary Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ

2009
5: Cinco-Cinc, five artists in Spain, Ajuntament del bruc, El Bruc, Barcelona
International Art Prize Arte Laguna, Venice, Italy
Costello Childs Contemporary Fine Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
Southern Nevada Museum of Fine Art, Las Vegas, NV, Spring Art Affair Exhibition
Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta, GA
Pamela Skinner/Gwenna Howard Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA

2008
SCOPE Art Fair, Miami, FL, Latitude Art Projects
Bronx Latin American Biennial, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT

2007
Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT
AQUA, Miami, Dolby Chadwick Gallery

2006
Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA, “Out of Line”
Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT

2005
Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Julie Nester Gallery, Park City, UT

2004
Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
AAF, New York, NY

2003
Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Momus Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2001
Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Momus Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2000
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, “Selections from the Permanent Collection”
Victoria Boyce Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ and Tucson, AZ

1999
Art One Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

1998
Gallery B.A.I., New York, NY
Art One Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

1997
Gallery B.A.I., New York, NY, “Christmas Group Show”

1996
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Art One Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
Memorial Union Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

1993
Harry Wood Art Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

1990
Visual Arts Gallery, Phoenix, AZ

PUBLIC ART

2006
Glendale Portable Artwork Collection

2004
East Mesa Regional Library Permanent Installation for the City of Mesa

2002
Osborn Pedestrian Bridge Project for the City of Scottsdale

2001
64th Street Permanent Installation for the City of Scottsdale

AWARDS

2009
Finalist forTenuta S. Anna Prize, Florence, Italy
International Scientific Committee of Florence selection for the Florence Biennale
Best of Show, SNFMA. Curator: Elizabeth Herridge, Dir. of Guggenheim Hermitage Museum
Best Mixed Media Painting, SNFMA. Curator: Elizabeth Herridge, Dir. of Guggenheim Hermitage Museum
Awarded artist stipend to attend Can Serrat residency in El Bruc, Spain

1998
Visual Arts Fellowship, Arizona Commission on the Arts

1997
Degoyler Grant Award, Dallas Museum of Art

1995-1992
Regents Fine Art Scholarship, Arizona State University

PUBLICATIONS

2009
New American Paintings, Number 84
Luxe. Interiors + Design, vol. 7, No. 4

2008
Midtown Monthly, June
Gallery Guide West, May

2002
Art Talk
San Francisco Magazine

2001
New American Paintings, Number 36
Escada Portfolio

1999
Where Magazine, September

1998
Art News, January
The Arizona Republic, April, 8
Phoenix Home and Garden, March

1996
Valley Guide Quarterly, Spring

1994
The Ashes, November

COLLECTIONS
St. Regis Hotel, Park City, UT
Daniel Wingate, ESCADA Group, Munich, Germany
Emilio Calleja, Vice President Merrill Lynch Arte Americas, Miami, FL
City of Glendale, Glendale, AZ
City of Mesa, Mesa, AZ
Mr. And Mrs.Cohen Scottsdale, AZ and New York, NY
Hotel Rouge, Washington, D.C.
Landgoed Dennenburg Estate, Driebergen, Netherlands
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Stettner Collection, Scottsdale, AZ and New York, NY
Dr. Vicente Riambau Alonso Collection, Barcelona, Spain
Mr. Rudy Turk, Phoenix, AZ

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Erik Gonzales, American, born 1973 was raised in Colorado and Connecticut. In 1990 he moved to Arizona and attended Arizona State University. He studied in Madrid in 1995 obtaining a second degree in Spanish Studies. After returning from Spain he moved to Phoenix where he currently lives and works. His time is spent working at his Phoenix studio and traveling throughout Europe with his wife.

His family’s Spanish background has had a profound influence on his work creating a dichotomy of new and old. On his paternal side the family history can be traced back to 1564 in Northern Spain and Southern France. His maternal family has its roots in Andalusia and came to the United States with a land grant from the King of Spain. The analytical side of his work can be traced to his father whose pioneering career as a nuclear pharmacist introduced the artist to the world of science at an early age. The deep textures and bold use of color represents his mother’s Andalusian background and continues to influence his use of mystical imagery.

ARTIST STATEMENT:

Through painting I create tactile expressions of my mind and soul that have a solid permanence much like the stelae of ancient cultures. The paintings become more tableau-like than simply paint on canvas with the use of unconventional materials that give weight to the works. By exploring new materials a process of experimentation follows that often takes center stage in my paintings. Images and symbols mix and coalesce with colors and textures to show the paintings’ history. Layer after layer is built up and then often removed to expose what once lay beneath. Much of the source imagery and inspiration for` my work comes from traveling abroad and new developments in modern science. Organic structures exist within orderly grids representing the complexities of civilization and the hidden order of things within nature. As in nature there exists a controlled chaos within my work that pushes the limits of both artist and materials. Often I utilize an economy of color together with rich dried pigments to create visual allegories of time and myth. My heavier grounds of red clay and powdered marble reflect weathered desert floors and old, time worn walls upon which our history is painted and etched while my canvases have the appearance of inscribed ancient parchments.