Xavier Gonzalez - Friendship #52 (c. 1975) Cape Cod I use a bandsaw

I use a bandsaw

I think I’m drawn to collage because it is about creating images using primarily color and shape

Like icing on a cake

Because the forms are more conceptual than real they reflect the ambiguous and evoke ambivalence triggering a longing for pleasure

filled with treasures of art and wonders of the natural world

Xavier Gonzalez - Friendship #52 (c. 1975) Cape Cod I use a bandsawby Xavier Gonzalez, c. 1975 19" x 26" mixed media on paper, unframed Gonzalez studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, the San Carlos Academy in Mexico City, the San Antonio Art School, and in Paris and the Far East. His works have been displayed throughout the United States including at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as in Paris, Venice, Brussels and Tokyo. He was Director of