The Return
Visitor Center Gallery, 233 Liberty St, Newburgh, NY 12550
March 12th to April 23rd, 2022
Press
Whitehot Magazine, Romina Gonzalez: The Return at the Visitor Center, by Jonathan Goodman
The Chronogram, Art Review: Romina Gonzales's "The Return" at Visitor Center, by Brian Mahoney
El Comercio, La Identidad en Transformación [Identity in Transformation]
When we loose our connection to nature we loose our spirit, our sense of self. Perceiving industrial materials that we take for granted as alive brings back our sense of awareness. Understanding their sources as well as their role in our daily lives generates questions that we often choose not to answer. Managing dissonance is a challenge in the strive for balance that can be attained by communing polarity. The Return, or “El Regreso”, stands for the 22nd card of the Egyptian Tarot matching number for year 2002. It is an archetypal representation of coming back to ourselves and moving forward with a renewed sense of self and the collective— the culmination of a journey into awareness, transformation, healing and grounding.
The Return features sculptures made out of sulfur, copper and glass to invite spirit back into our modern world. Using the innate qualities of these materials to touch upon socio-economic & environmental issues, wellness/healing, ancestral practices and de-coloniality.
Bridge of Incidents
2022
Sulfur, copper, plywood, stainless steel
123 x 47 x 80 inches
No Caffeine Tomorrow
2022
Discarded used motor oil, glass, copper, epoxy
10 x 10 x 7 inches
Desert Spring
2022
Sulfur, wood
24 x 2 x 48 inches
A Mound, a Corner or a Grotto
2021
Glass, epoxy
22 x 20 x 17
Contrapposto
2022
Glass, copper, steel
26 x 16 x 21 inches
Sibilant III (Silent Seep)
2022
Sulfur, clay
18.5 x 11.5 x 5 inches
Little Pull (Cynthia)
2022
Glass, copper, stainless steel
7 x 4 x 32 inches
Even Pull
2022
Glass, copper, stainless steel
22 x 4 x 60
Enlightment
2022
Hand sanitizer, pigments, glass, epoxy, copper
19 x 5 x 11
I Am
2022
Glass, silver nitrate, copper, stainless steel, epoxy
22 x 6 x 87 inches
Sibilant II (Susana)
2020
Sulfur
14 x 8.5 x 3.5 inches
The Return
2021
Glass, copper, sulfur, epoxy
4 x 4 x 25 inches
Deep Breath
2022
Glass, copper, epoxy
6.5 x 5 x 7
Mother Print
2011
Copper
17 x 0.75 x 17
From left to right:
Upward Rain, 2022; Sulfur, plywood; 8.5 x 2.75 x 16 inches
Outward Crater, 2022; Sulfur, plywood; 8 x 2 x 11 inches
River Dragon, 2022; Sulfur, plywood; 8.5 x 2.75 x 16 inches
