Adrian Gonzalez
I use Spanglish, a language that I and many others in the United States
speak, to reflect on our contemporary moment. My work explores the interaction
of Spanglish with Latin and American culture and politics, Latin music, slang,
insults, jokes, and other aspects of popular media. The exchange between
Spanish and English is meant to communicate new thinking through playful
yet provocative bilingual phrases, expressions, and unstructured ideas of
language. I work with collage and assemblage paintings, sculptures, and
prints from various drawn, printed, painted, sculpted, and found sources, all
of which seek to emanate the improvisational creativity of Spanglish. For
anyone who is bilingual, it is commonplace to find words or phrases that are
lost in translation.