Yolanda Gonzalez

My artist I am doing my paper and presentation on is the multi-media artist-- but mostly painter-- Yolanda Gonzalez. She is a Southern California local and went to school after being a hairdresser at the Pasadena Arts Center. Her works include but are not limited to sketches in color and black and white, paintings in oil and acrylic, ceramics, sculptures and more. She uses vivid coloring and deep tones when creating her works and it is one of the things which hi appreciate most because it just makes her art so interesting to look at an allows for you to discover new things with each time you look. 

When I wrote my paper and did my presentation I focused on three of her works, one of which is her Creation de Amor, a painting work on a wooden angel sculpture as part of a collection of painted angels for an exhibition celebrating the centennial of the CCF, which they commissioned 30 artists from los Angeles to represent the diversity within our community and the beauty within these differences. 

I truly love the way her work was contrasted off another artist's sculptural piece and it felt like a layering of rich ideas and meanings and histories behind the works, much like how Los Angeles is an incredibly diverse, rich and multifaceted city.