A Jug to Alleviate Stagnation of Sacral Smoke

Name: A Jug to Alleviate Stagnation of Sacral Smoke
Brand: Leah Gonzales Art
Price: 300.0 USD
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$300.00 USD

Artist: Leah Gonzales Art
Certification of Authenticity: Apricus Art Collection
Signature: Signed by Artist

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12" x 12"

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Gouache on wooden panel, 2024, H: 10” x W: 10” x D: 2”.

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Artist Biography

Leah Gonzales (b.1988) is an emerging visual artist working in a range of media including painting, sculpture, embroidery, animation, installation, and ceramics to further explore her identity as a queer woman of mixed heritage. Influenced by indigenous folk-art of the Southwest, ancient world art, pre-columbian art, Surrealism, and New Objectivity, she further incorporates personal motifs and symbols to create an allegory of her spiritual relationship to both nature and humanity.

Gonzales’ work has been exhibited primarily in the Los Angeles and New York region, and has won awards like Best in Show for her animation “In Loving Memory” (2016), as is a Grant Recipient from Cerf+ for her ceramic craft in 2021. Her work has been collected by collectors such as Milton Cohen of Baltimore, MD and Sandy Besser of Santa Fe, NM. Her largest installation to date was “Sauce Alley”, held in the catacombs of the Old Mint located in downtown San Francisco, CA, 2017.

Her work in community and education is important to her studio practice and career. Gonzales has worked to bring artwork and creative events to underserved communities throughout California through artist run spaces and collectives. She is an Adjunct Studio Art Professor at schools like Santa Monica College, Community College of Aurora, as well as Bemis School of Fine Art through Colorado College. Her work in diversity has been through educating herself through coursework to equitize her classroom and center underserved students in the institution of the community college system.

Leah Gonzales holds an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute as a Diversity Scholar recipient from 2014-2017. She also holds a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art (2011) where she graduated Cum Laude. At MICA she was awarded an opportunity as a Honors student to live and study in Florence, Italy, at the Studio Art Center International in 2010.

Artist Statement

I am a visual artist working in a range of mixed-media including painting, sculpture, embroidery, animation, installation, and ceramics. I use these mediums to further investigate my identity as a queer woman of mixed heritage. In my recent work, I have been exploring both my queerness and my indigeneity of my ancestors of the South Western, U.S. I am interested in inventing aesthetics to visually describe the space in between these parts of my identity, where I sometimes feel like I belong to neither. This is what drives me to explore this in-between space, to create my own world where my whiteness, nativeness, and queerness exist as a whole. As someone who did not grow up with a connection to an indigenous community, I am influenced by indigenous folk-art and petroglyphs of New Mexico, where my family is traceable up to 1,000 years ago. I also love the aesthetic of Pre-Columbian art, Surrealism, and the work that came from the New Objectivity art movement. These styles influence my visual world, but I also incorporate my own personal motifs and symbols. The end result is an allegory of my identity and spiritual relationship to both nature and humanity.

With my research of ancient cultures, I have found that I enjoy the way different societies imagine femininity and maternity as a powerful force. From this research I have been inspired to visualize my own cosmology. This is where an unusual landscape is created to foster a cyclical connection between maternal beings and their relationship with animals, plants, the sky, and the earth. The main protagonists who wander this imagined landscape are deities, monsters, and goddesses that are often hybrid feminine creatures. These creatures are an exploration of the liminal space where femininity becomes a monstrosity. I love exploring female archetypes that embody this persona through both my art and other cultures. What is left for my audience is a lasting impression of both objects and paintings that are both alluring and otherworldly.

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