Gutenberg, Leopoldo Mendez, Manuel Manilla, J. Guadalupe Posada, Caxton, Bruce Rogers, Nash, Eric Ravilious, Elizabeth Catlett, Eric Gill, Franz Masereel, The German Expressioninsts...
About me: My name is D. González and I was born and raised somewhere between the small mountain town of El Teúl de Gonzalez Ortega, Zacatecas and Boyle Heights, in the Republic of East Los Angeles. I love printmaking and letterpress and I like doing it well. I was introduced to printmaking during my two year stay at California College of Arts (and Crafts) in Oakland on a generous full scholarship that was yanked when the school got tired of handing out money (true story!). I studied graphic design and chose to stick with print design and that's where I fell in love with the smell of ink and the click-ity clack of the press. While people were going ga-ga over pixels and the internet, I was craving obsolete printing technologies and sexy handmade papers. I like the chingazo letterpress gives the paper and the pretty bruise it leaves behind. Alot of my work is about narratives passed down to me through folk stories, social commentary, life and the human comedy. Some of it is allegorical and works very much in the tradition of Jose G. Posada, Manuel Manilla and Leopoldo Mendez. Take a look-see...
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Who I'd like to meet: Art collectors, patrons of the arts, galleries & art-makers...
Next time you are in my barrio, let me know and I will buy you your B-Day smoothie!
Estas son las mañanitas, que cantaba el Rey David. Hoy por ser día de tu santo, te las cantamos a ti. Despierta mi bien despierta!, mira que ya amaneció. Ya los pajaritos cantan. La luna ya se metió. Que linda está la mañana en que vengo a saludarte. Venimos todos con gusto y placer a felicitarte. Ya viene amaneciendo. Ya la luz del día nos dio. Levántate de mañana. Mira que ya amaneció. El día en que tú naciste, nacieron todas las flores y en la pila del bautismo cantaron los ruiseñores. Quisiera ser un San Juan, quisiera ser un San Pedro, para venirte a cantar con la música del cielo. De las estrellas del cielo quisiera bajarte dos; una para saludarte y otra para decirte adiós.
Diego Rivera said it and I dont regret it: All "art" is propaganda, one way or another- The Point Is, "what do you choose to propagate? yourself, cute pictures, information, inspiration or revolution?"
hey man i love ur prints? i was wondering if u use linoleam and if that is a hard medium to use? do u sell ur own posters? i made posters but digital and dont look near as good as your work do u have any advice?
The dark nights and solitude of the desert these are like the winds that we prevail in the vast the unspeakable, we thus face a reality in our revealing ourselves and allowing us to grow and subdue our woes that are all too often that a reflection that life makes us seeing them to seriously. How painful moments pass before we become aware and transmute these moments of pure abandon and so we return in the morning in a bright new day where everything is possible.
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