Artist Statement as a Visual and Multidisciplinary Artist
Rosalinda Gonzalez is a visual and multidisciplinary artist. She is best known for paintings, videos, performance art, interventionist public art, installation art, and photographs. Her work depicts an evolution of her experiences informed by trauma, inequality, contemporary counterculture, and Christianity. Her work can be colorful and neo-expressionistic, monochromatic and abstract or take on a minimalist approach depending on the series. She draws inspiration from God, Dada, and Fluxus when creating new media works or performing live. Visually her work often depicts self-portraits, figures, archetypes, and silhouettes.
Artist Biography and Background
Rosalinda Gonzalez is a fine artist, designer, cultural producer, and community builder. Born in Germany, she is a multidisciplinary artist residing in Houston and New York City. She grew up in a military family with strong ties to Houston. As a community builder and likes to work within underrepresented, differently abled, and Latin communities. She has diverse background in working within and for galleries, museums, art non-profits, and alternative artist-run spaces.
She studied business at The University of Houston and art under Luis Jiménez there. Her educational experience as a graduate of the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and the Rhode Island Institute of Design lends her thought leadership and an avant-garde perspective. Since 2009, she has spent a lot of time living and working in New York City.
In 2019, she launched Rosalinda’s Enterprise, a corporation and economic intervention project with headquarters in Houston.
Artist-Activist Statement
As an artist-activist she is more known for organizing in local communities, putting on exhibitions, and other special events that support underrepresented groups in an artistic setting. Around 45+ exhibitions and events in Houston, Texas, New York, New York, San Francisco, California, and Montpellier, Vermont, have been organized, curated, marketed, and produced by her. She has most recently served as a volunteer on the Jung Center’s Committee for Belonging and Art Selection Committee. She is currently exploring and collaborating with the Jung Center on how to bring more diversity in the selection of instructors, artists, and art programs in the Houston Texas Museum District.
Let all that you do be done in love
1 Corinthians 16:14
Mission and Free Speech Statement
Rosalinda Gonzalez is dedicated to bring salvation, hope, art, and healing by spreading the ‘good news’ of Jesus. She believes in free speech, being a good steward of the earth/animals, and respecting human life and souls.