Oct 14
Pathos Along a Contemporary Frontier: Border Paintings by Rigoberto Alonso Gonzalez
Please note that Gonzalez's art addresses violence on the US/Mexico border and this presentation may contain graphic imagery.
This talk proudly sponsored by the Christopher U. Light Arts Lectureship
Immediately following the talk, please join CSA in a celebration for Indigenous People's Day with a viewing of the film "Warrior Women" and a Q&A with two members of the Warrior Women Project. Click here for more details.
Born in 1973 in Reynosa Tamaulipas, Mexico, Rigoberto González lives in Edinburg, Texas. He received his B.F.A. from the University of Texas Pan American in 1999 and an M.F.A. from the New York Academy of Art in 2004. He currently teaches drawing and painting at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Gonzalez’s work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, the Konsthallen Bohuslan Museum in Uddevalla, Sweden, The Museum of Contemporary Art Branch of the National Museum in Wrocław, Poland, The Guildhall Art Gallery in London, England. Rigoberto has participated in artist residencies at the Roswell Artist Residency in Roswell, New Mexico, and at the Santa Fe Art Institute Artist Residency Program in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
from Art & Art History