Ricardo Gonzalez “Jaunty Juke”

Asya Geisberg Gallery

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Asya Geisberg Gallery presents “Jaunty Juke”, the second solo exhibition of Ricardo Gonzalez. Comprised of expressionistic paintings and an ongoing series of charcoal drawings with a focus on line and gesture, this exhibition is populated by Gonzalez’s familiar figures, drawn swiftly to represent a frenzied state. Gonzalez, a musician turned painter, connects the intuitive nature of jamming and music’s physical expression through the body to the process of drawing, as he searches to recreate that wave of pure expression in his art: a euphoric state, so concentrated as to be on the verge of collapse, and the precipice to chaos. Obsessively drawing similar motifs, the artist aims for a perfection that arrives from working nonstop at a high speed from start to finish. The apex of these experiments come with a series of frenzied works, where the figure is dispersed and recombined into a series of riffs on face, gesture, and body.