Description:
Watercolor
Artist:
Humberto González
Location:
Extension and Experimentation Communications, 422 Kerr Hall, OSU Corvallis, OR.
Dimensions:
22” x 30”
Awards:
1994 Paul Lamb and Reese Lamb Memorial Art About Agriculture Purchase Award, sponsored by Lamb Foundation and the College of Agricultural Sciences.
Artist Statement:
"Line and color are the essential elements which hold my interest and give form to my participation in the creative process. From a very early age drawing, the simple act of making marks to record an observation, proved fascinating and magical. In watercolor I have found the most natural vehicle in which to exercise this visual interest. The medium’s characteristics of nuance, transparency, immediacy, and flexibility contribute further to complement my chosen approach. My paintings, although drawn directly from field work, are studies, struggles, or searches; they tend to reflect the nature of the painting process as well as the basic substance of the subject matter. The subject might begin as the focus of observation, but as the process unfolds and the develops, it is the visual dialogue, the internalizing of the moment with its myriad influences, which I synthesize to produce a personal reflection of this experience.
"My painting is an ongoing process of investigation of my immediate world. It is a vehicle which through its inherent power of observation allows me to connect myself to myself and to my environment. The paintings become a visual diary of my expressed response to specific places, persons or things at a given point in time. The visual documentation of these direct, first hand experiences serves to record a personal perspective of a conscious moment engaged in the wonder of life. In this continuous search through the universal language of art, a painting offers me a look back at my developing personality, a tangible view at what is now for me a momentary glimpse at truth.
"Using the reality of my immediate world as a point of departure lends substance and structure to the imagery suggested in my work. This realistic base also serves to establish an integrity between painter and subject matter. To simply fabricate innovation or to engineer technique is not my interest. What inspires me is a need to co-create in conjunction with the chosen subject. In the ensuing dance of the creative process, painter and subject perfom in an equal interaction of discovery to the extent that the created work reveals an aesthetic synthesis of a new perception.”
Humberto Gonzalez, 2005
Year:
1993