Presentation: Suzy Gonzalez

Suzy Gonzalez is a contemporary Chicana artist who was born and raised in Texas. This artist I choose is not from the list professor provided. I choose this artist because her work is impressive to me.
She graduated with a BFA from Texas State University in 2012 and attended the Vermont Studio Center residency later that same year. Her work functions to investigate the complexities of the identities of marginalized beings.

 With her current work, Miss Drumstick, Suzy takes influence from the feminization of animal-based food products, beauty pageants, and customary language in order to explore the relationships between the inequalities of the female human and the female nonhuman. With an emblematic color palette, she speaks of the unique experience of each individual woman and her lamentable relationship to each individual female nonhuman. She uses mannequins as painting surfaces because they represent an idealized human form while they are, in fact, objects. They speak of fashion, advertising, and socially acceptable performative gender roles.