Marisabel Gonzalez

I’d like to think that my paintings can provide a space for connection.

Looking back at Phenomena, a work from 2025, I can see things in it that I wasn’t quite aware of at the time.

My interest in the in-between has grown partly because it has become a way of understanding my own identity. Across my art practice and professional life, I have been navigating between cultures, languages and different systems of knowledge. Increasingly, that space between them has become a site of enquiry.

Phenomena already carried many of these ideas: body and landscape, surface and depth, and forms that don’t quite belong to one place or another.Interestingly, the work came first and the language to describe it developed later.

This is what I hope painting can do; make visible the connections between things we tend to understand as separate.

Phenomena, 2025
Acrylic, pastel,oil and aerosol on canvas
120 x 120

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