I chose Mark Gonzales for this project because he is possibly one of the artist that inspired me the most. His style in art is just amazing and also his style in skateboarding , he is also quite the poet. I just love his lifestyle and views on life.
Mark Gonzales was born on June 1st of 1968 in South Gate, California. He is of Mexican descent and he is still living, drawing and skating to this day. He has travelled all over the world, he recently went on a skateboarding trip all the world basically, to places such as Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Barcelona, etc. Something that I love so much about his artwork is how he incorporates skateboarding into his artwork without the art being nothing but skulls, fire and other very cliche ideas. He uses abstraction and surrealism in a lot of his work, he also uses contour quite a bit and you can obviously tell. He also uses the experiences from all his trips to inspire his artwork. He especially likes to create zines. One of his famous pieces is Artistik Merit, in this piece there is an upside down bust of a man, next to that is a metal folding …show more content…
I made New York shots separate from the rest because there is a lot weird stuff going on in New York, so he gets unique and cool shots such as there were these guys riding on a circle board, a bunch of skateboards screwed together to form a big circle of skateboards which is rideable, and he got a shot of them riding down the middle of the road in downtown Brooklyn, New York. Also since we’re on the subject of skateboards now, I’d like to include that just recently Mark was named the “Most Influential Skateboarder of All Time” by Transworld Skateboarding Magazine, also he was recently entered into the skateboarding hall of fame. He also owns a skateboarding company called Krooked Skateboards, he sketches out the designs for the skateboards
Mark Gonzales was born on June 1st of 1968 in South Gate, California. He is of Mexican descent and he is still living, drawing and skating to this day. He has travelled all over the world, he recently went on a skateboarding trip all the world basically, to places such as Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Barcelona, etc. Something that I love so much about his artwork is how he incorporates skateboarding into his artwork without the art being nothing but skulls, fire and other very cliche ideas. He uses abstraction and surrealism in a lot of his work, he also uses contour quite a bit and you can obviously tell. He also uses the experiences from all his trips to inspire his artwork. He especially likes to create zines. One of his famous pieces is Artistik Merit, in this piece there is an upside down bust of a man, next to that is a metal folding …show more content…
I made New York shots separate from the rest because there is a lot weird stuff going on in New York, so he gets unique and cool shots such as there were these guys riding on a circle board, a bunch of skateboards screwed together to form a big circle of skateboards which is rideable, and he got a shot of them riding down the middle of the road in downtown Brooklyn, New York. Also since we’re on the subject of skateboards now, I’d like to include that just recently Mark was named the “Most Influential Skateboarder of All Time” by Transworld Skateboarding Magazine, also he was recently entered into the skateboarding hall of fame. He also owns a skateboarding company called Krooked Skateboards, he sketches out the designs for the skateboards