Diana González Gandolfi: Navigated Territories

May 15 -- September 4, 2016 - All the paintings and prints featured in the exhibition are autobiographical and are part of a series that focuses on memory, identity and place. The images are full of familial, cultural and political influences while metaphorically exploring issues about separation, alienation, loss, political injustices and mortality.

The works in the exhibition are all hybrids of drawing, painting and printmaking with a printed image used as a base. The framed paper pieces are either monotypes or encaustic collagraphs reworked with watercolor and pencil. The works on panel are all mixed media layered and start as encaustic collagraphs or monotype prints. These pieces are then attached to wood panels and reworked with layers of encaustic medium, collage elements, pigmented wax, graphite, watercolor and pigment stick.