Klaus von Nichtssagend is happy to announce an upcoming exhibition of work by Tamara Gonzales, opening January 12 and on view via February 17, 2024. Titled Amplifiers, the present will function new works specializing in ornate body motifs that embody the outer bounds of every canvas in addition to work that includes Gonzales’s distinctive forged of figures and animalian varieties.
In medicinal discourse, an amplifier is one thing that enhances the impact of a substance to push one’s expertise to a desired impact. The picture of the body is foregrounded in these new works, alluding to a time when an elaborate body served because the of entirety on a murals, meant to reinforce its magnificence within the eye of the beholder. Gonzales’s body pictures are patterned with frolicsome strains and marks, that are developed via her direct drawing course of. The inside of the canvases lack a rendered topic and are as an alternative crammed with swashes of colour or brushstrokes. Gonzales sees this deep and expansive house as psychically reflective: a mirror of kinds, amplified by its boundaries.
Along with these works, the exhibition will function colourful work the place the canvas is crammed with the dancing, posing characters from Gonzales’s lexicon. These figures create a dynamic interaction between the artist’s visions, goals, and non secular experiences – vigorous, colourful, and playful, but provocative.
