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of Friends and Family| A. Andrew Gonzalez |
About the Artist:
 I'm very excited to have painted with the visionary fantastic artist, Ernst Fuchs , assisting him at his atelier in Monaco and working with him on a church mural project in Klagenfurt, Austria - June 1st - July 24th 2000. From July 24th - Aug. 18th, 2000 I returned to Payerbach, Austria to participate in the Old Masters - New Visions seminar and the 100 Sacred Visions exhibition.( I was awarded best in show!) I've just recently sold all my major pieces to a collector in Rhode Island! Since returning from Europe I have devoted all my time tto producing new paintings. |
| I was born October 13th 1963 at Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio, Texas, and spent most my youth between San Antonio and northern California. I currently reside in San Antonio. My art education is self-taught and even though my father is an accomplished professional artist , he gave me encouragement but no formal training. My childhood drawings where mostly of surreal creatures and otherworldly space travels and as a teenager I began to explore a bit of wildlife drawing. At 13 years of age, I discovered the masters of the surreal, fantastic and visionary art through a gift subscription of OMNI magazine. This was precisely the stimulation my imagination craved. I was profoundly fascinated by articles that explored the frontiers of consciousness research, spirituality, science, psychology, physics and fiction and was completely enchanted by the art!, seeing for the first time the visions of Ernst Fuchs, H.R.Giger, Dali, Robert Venosa, De Es, and many others. My soul was in complete sympathy with this visionary tradition, I began exploring art history in search of its memetic origins and found its golden current flowing through Bosch, William Blake, Gustave Moreau, Art Nouveau, the Symbolist especially Jean Delville, the Surrealist and the Fantastic Realist. I also discovered its relationship with mysticism and the esoteric tradition, a subject which I've always had an interest due to my natural susceptibility for profound, lucid and precognitive dreams, OBE's, and sensitivity for synchronicity. At the age of 19 after a series of what can only be described as mystical dream experiences, I felt reborn and in the grip of an inspired calling. Charged by the inspiration of visionary art and my experiences and research, I began to seriously paint, refining my technique and developing the imagery as a tool for exploration and self-discovery. |
 The paintings are created
with airbrushed acrylics on panel or canvas. Forms, values and highlighting are created by
lifting pigment with an abrasive eraser, followed by the application of transparent layers
of pigment. A model is used for figure development. I do not consider my work fantasy art or surrealist, although influenced by romanticism and idealism my work comes closer to a Transpersonal Tantric art. Primarily a figurative artist, my images explore the Sophianic (wisdom) mysteries of the body. Organic imagery is used to symbolize an interior imaginal dimension. The body is sublimated by transfigurative energies, exalted in glory and destiny, made transparent to the transcendent by the dramatic union of the sensual and celestial. |
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