http://www.oscar-gonzalezdiaz.com/sculpt daily 0.75 2019-07-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1485115009171-8YH2DNH6PSXE6SY66915/Oscar-1800-pixels-72ppi-3232.jpg Current - Panels I & II Panel I 2016 Sherwin Williams’ Agreeable Gray acrylic paint, ¾” Baltic birch plywood, ¼” acrylic sheet, 10G steel sheet, Nerf Rival Apollo XV-700 blaster (blue)   Panel II 2016 Sherwin Williams’ Hazel acrylic paint, ¾” Baltic birch plywood, ¼” acrylic sheet, 10G steel sheet, KitchenAid 5-qt Artisan mixer (aqua sky) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1485114252892-97VV0BFLM2MH3G2AXAGZ/Oscar-1800-pixels-72ppi-3284.jpg Current - Mujeres Iluminadas 2016 Acrylic plastic.   On the gallery walls, violent traces reside on the border of a synthetic American territory. They are transparent maps that present the ghost of latent violence and trauma: The things we choose to see but only under a certain light.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1496242781861-W9DL2GZVBEXX0PLZ13QO/O%CC%81scar+Gonza%CC%81lez+Di%CC%81az_MFA+2017_00.jpg Current Floor Piece (one minute on/one minute off) 2017 15ft x 6ft 4,410 hand casted PVC dolls, enamel paints, plastic cloth, rubber nosing     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1546703918762-CXCRN0IBQAM4FDBJUGLF/12.jpg Current https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1546703708073-I6G9DJOKKDN7ZDK940ZH/4.jpg Current https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1546703470107-142IO99WSRH3WMMGV7UU/1.jpg Current https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1546703361618-VK7VKRPDHXFY0HJMM8A7/24.jpg Current https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1563069333784-1YO0U0PIGUQ4MTVPHX9T/65285223_2813554525324790_687411942381322240_o.jpg Current http://www.oscar-gonzalezdiaz.com/older-projects daily 0.75 2017-05-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1494456645219-G1UMLM7P7XXM1BSQ2RUS/IMG_0576.JPG Older Projects Floor Piece (one minute on/one minute off) 2017 15ft x 6ft 4,410 hand casted PVC dolls, enamel paints, plastic cloth, rubber nosing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1446660053304-5AQ1E81PGJDSOZRK6Y5T/IMG_0175.jpg Older Projects - Research Sample 2 & 3 Samples of Embroidery http://www.oscar-gonzalezdiaz.com/exhibitions daily 0.75 2020-02-14 http://www.oscar-gonzalezdiaz.com/exhibitions/2019/11/1/the-wrong-biennale monthly 0.5 2020-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1581687444755-MCESJEH6ZEREM885ZWBZ/image-asset.png Exhibitons - The Wrong Biennale http://www.oscar-gonzalezdiaz.com/exhibitions/2020/2/14/in-flux-chicago-artists-and-immigration-opening-celebration monthly 0.5 2020-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1581686621683-6HZ9PFKZ9OSAUAJVUAOO/luchadores.jpg Exhibitons - In Flux: Chicago Artists and Immigration opening celebration http://www.oscar-gonzalezdiaz.com/exhibitions/2019/10/1/terrain-biennial monthly 0.5 2019-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1571233477363-CQQZLCYQLVDLL5EGLNRX/IMG_0155.jpg Exhibitons - Terrain Biennial http://www.oscar-gonzalezdiaz.com/exhibitions/2019/6/13/bubbly-creek-visual-art-exhibition monthly 0.5 2019-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1571227945273-HDWOUF0ICBWW6844SOV8/IMG_2795.jpeg Exhibitons - Bubbly Creek Visual Art Exhibition http://www.oscar-gonzalezdiaz.com/exhibitions/formwithoutaplan monthly 0.5 2019-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1571227463996-EIK4JB61J135EDPQK1X6/image-asset.jpeg Exhibitons - Form Without A Plan http://www.oscar-gonzalezdiaz.com/exhibitions/postnafta monthly 0.5 2019-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1571226884078-ESX2JE7ZYFSHSIBKT86I/45621520_2066595863392786_4911858031454584832_o.jpg Exhibitons - A Post-NAFTA World http://www.oscar-gonzalezdiaz.com/exhibitions/swoosh monthly 0.5 2019-10-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1571226792051-N8FJKBWRGRHPY8XCPVB7/43487643_2025847947467578_804332127683346432_o.jpg Exhibitons - Swoo$h http://www.oscar-gonzalezdiaz.com/exhibitions/i-was-raised-on-the-internet monthly 0.5 2018-06-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1528057497452-8CEO32WCM447LAQ2QM0L/internet.jpg Exhibitons - I was Raised on The Internet Eva and Franco Mattes, My Generation, 2010. Video (13 minutes, 18 seconds), broken computer tower, CRT monitor, loudspeakers, keyboard, mouse, and various cables; overall dimensions variable. Installation view, Plugin, Basel. Collection of Alain Servais. http://www.oscar-gonzalezdiaz.com/exhibitions/circle-contemporary monthly 0.5 2018-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1528056705459-RW3QAPY0OCXA74CBBUL1/memory+placas.jpg Exhibitons - Memory Palace at Circle Contemporary http://www.oscar-gonzalezdiaz.com/exhibitions/2017/9/29/rise-from-the-rubble-weather-the-winds-fundraiserauction monthly 0.5 2017-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1506632658366-UOWDVSETVPE55T29P3TL/21994409_1913583505335394_1868274368832282931_o.jpg Exhibitons - Rise from the Rubble, Weather the Winds: Fundraiser/Auction http://www.oscar-gonzalezdiaz.com/exhibitions/2017/9/22/reichstag-blue monthly 0.5 2017-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1504714577384-U56K6FGOPVM10687ZVF3/Wiegel_Kurrent_teilnehmermeldebogen_pdf_635.005_en+Candidate%E2%80%99s+naturalisation+test+application+form+%E2%80%93+635.005++.jpg Exhibitons - Reichstag Blue http://www.oscar-gonzalezdiaz.com/exhibitions/expo monthly 0.5 2017-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1504713983776-Z0QYKEONFPG5H7BA7SV6/CoryDewald_EXPOCHICAGO_2016_lo-res-217DSC_1360%283%29.jpg Exhibitons - EXPO Chicago http://www.oscar-gonzalezdiaz.com/exhibitions/2017/4/28/saic-mfa-show monthly 0.5 2017-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1492398549178-5UROT607NKVAKSMT0LIM/MFA+Show Exhibitons - SAIC MFA Show http://www.oscar-gonzalezdiaz.com/exhibitions/citi-i-zen monthly 0.5 2017-02-20 http://www.oscar-gonzalezdiaz.com/exhibitions/stolbun-collection monthly 0.5 2017-02-20 http://www.oscar-gonzalezdiaz.com/exhibitions/2016/11/4/synergic-forms monthly 0.5 2016-11-21 http://www.oscar-gonzalezdiaz.com/exhibitions/2016/9/23/new-works-show monthly 0.5 2016-09-29 http://www.oscar-gonzalezdiaz.com/previous daily 0.75 2016-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1446661529729-QJQNN84T6WD5AVJED3EH/equis Previous Research Sample 5 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1446661099177-RXFHF5MRW1P2YX8334IJ/image-asset.jpeg Previous Detail 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1446661429595-WZU87D7S0OFS6HKK9J66/monumento Previous Research Study 3 (Monument) 2015 Unbleached Muslin, polyester thread, cotton, wire Monuments, like the thread in this study, tend to just weather away in the city. By having conversations with the associations involved in campaigning for these victims, I will bring narrative to a work that is otherwise alien to us. I will use these techniques and methods of conversation to help those affected provide their counter arguments to the conversations in violence that are taking place day in and day out in the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1446661309818-I9ZQ122X0U23J0AHXK15/trampados Previous Research Study 4 (Apprehended) 2015 Unbleached Muslin, polyester thread, cotton, wire These conversations in violence also surround those that have been driven by need and lack of resources into crime. Often times the criminals are poorer than those they attack, rape and kill. One of the associations I will work with has been set up to help those in fringe communities (the most exposed and vulnerable to crime) to provide them with trade tools and training to deter them from crime. I will interview these volunteers and participants to record and document their impressions and responses to the state the thread of their society is in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1446660651531-29K072JL3N8JKZSV38YT/manta Previous Research Study (manta) 2015 Unbleached Muslin, polyester thread, cotton Sample of composition, this is one of the many messages that violent groups leave one another throughout the city on an almost daily basis. The opposing faction then perpetuates the conversation by returning the act in kind. These messages are always accompanied by a memento; the body(ies) of fellow criminals.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1446661381973-41EE3LUK18O0UZK2LHXJ/sample+3 Previous Detail 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1446660615009-UICFD2KXCOQUQIOFSPAD/Sample2and3 Previous Research Samples 2 & 3 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1446661570829-6SSAITJG2YK7178O2QJE/avbuelp Previous Research Sample 6 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1446661161890-3TELQW0PB2LWW7SNNG8H/muerta Previous Research Study 2 (muerta) 2015 Unbleached Muslin, polyester thread, cotton So obscured is the spread of information in such a violent city that even the deaths of those involved are often times assigned a number and lumped into larger cases, thus never becoming identified on their own. This study enacts the disjoint between the victims, the society and the protectors (government) by showcasing the protected and muddled views we get of the treatment of victims and those supposed to bring justice to them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1474433019044-Y9QXX71NL4BDN080825M/With+The+Stars+Above+and+The+Sun+Below4.JPG Previous https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1475109711859-J7R7K4ECC074IEKPF42C/manta.jpg Previous https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1457925725555-DW95LU6CEVHQOXSTBAP2/IMG_0240.JPG Previous Container Series (Containers 1-4) 2015 cement canvas, rope     In Container Series (1-4), forms made from a refugee shelter material sit on the perimeter of an American ideal. It takes the viewer to a self-exile, mode of living that is so pervasive to present life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1423936282660-6NXROEB33GX9X8ZPV3JU/_MG_9008_1665.jpg Previous - Saco Year 2014 Size 2 x 3 ft What constitutes a cover, a larger pouch or encasement? Taking things to their larger versions results in different objects, what then happens if an object is not exaggerated, but rather repeated to fulfill the work of that larger version of itself? This piece uses sets as units in order to complete a system. My current work is developing around systems. Namely, the relative process that creating my art takes, with that idea in mind, I attempt to use the language in systems in order to substitute and affect different uses within a system. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1423935053237-ESRXXPJV1M0VS7IB1Q6Q/FamilyPortrait.jpg Previous - Family Portrait Title Family Portrait Size 16 x 20 in Year 2013 inkjet on paper While a person might look similar to his kin on the outside, the opinions and ideas about the world, and what colors that personality embraces are going to differ, so these people are going to be different from one another as shown in this work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1423934790367-S4DGY6RNKGW57H2SL3XQ/sleeve1.jpg Previous - Twenty-One Size 1 x 9 ft Year 2013 Cotton, wood, enamel The relationship between the growth of a man and the developmental stages that come about from this is presented by reducing the identity of a person to one of its basic components; the clothing one wears. Here the allusion of time and growth is represented while showing the decisions the person has made as he grows and how those decisions affect the decisions that come after. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1423936027763-6JFHZTY8FMI4I9K52ANC/_MG_8939_1597.jpg Previous - Life in the cul-de-sac Year 2014 Plastic, Cloth, Plaster 2 x 3 x 2.5 ft A bag that stores seasonal objects has been used to to hold the impressions of the artist's personality on a mask. The familiar cloth from a pillow and fabrics found in the mid 90s cover an exaggerated mask that looks in mourning over to the side. A reminder that every season one must pack up and move on, however futile if the roads back always end up at a dead end. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1423933691286-FRR7SS0SKG7UIQNLTVAF/IMG_2621.JPG Previous - grandParents Year 2014 Size Paper, Wood, Electric motor, Silicone 6 in x 1 x 8 ft A timed piece consisting of the artist's nuclear family and its history. The pieces on it are: the family (Grandfather, Grandmother and artist) and the inclined slab, a metric of the life lived together. The pieces move across the surface of the slab in a duration of 28hrs, the age of the artist at the time of creation. This work aims to show the transition of the family unit as a microcosm, one that is dragged along by the sheer pull of time and gravity. During its presentation one of the pieces disappears and the remaining two drift apart. The three pieces are constructed from colored paper and are tracked to the underside of the slab as a motor vibrates on the lower end of the slab and carries the pieces across. The elapsed time is ~28hrs.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1423935726703-E8A5EZFJLGZ56O2Q41DW/id+installation.jpg Previous - Identity Project (Installation and video) Size Installation Year 2013 Video (9:20min), Paper Graph This project began as research into data-mining practices in the USA. Companies were contacted and asked to divulge information about the artists online presence. Among the companies contacted where YAHOO!, Google, Facebook. In the research process many things became apparent in regards to the use of the information available online about the artist. The bigger concerns were among: the ideas of representation of an individual, representation of the artists as part of a set and the artist as unique variable in a set. 9:20 min loop is the second part of the Identity Project installation. This is the video loop of the screen-grab responses from the Facebook questions.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1423936834554-0I3I1EFIOVMZK8YZ70QR/Slabs.jpg Previous - Untitled (Cloth Slabs) Size 2 x 8 x 6 in (13 pieces) Year 2014 cloth, wood, enamel A series of stacks attached onto a series of trees that attempt to engage the viewer upfront and without the aid of a gallery space. This piece becomes an expanded field of vision and rather than standing apart from the setting it is in, it becomes part of it. The work is successful in blending just enough that it creates an installation of itself, but it fails enough so that the pieces remain independent and only the space between the three designs the space and grounds the work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1423936560987-ZX0CXD5IXATVD6BC0BNR/IMG_3431.JPG Previous - Relative Being Year 2014 Size 36 x 36 x 36 in Wood, enamel, Polystyrene Two sets have been taken and exchanged in the relative terms of what it constitutes having one object resemble the other by virtue of having the different parts do the same function. So, create one thing and substitute its variables to create a new version of itself. Language is so ingrained into our world that we are unable to take a step back from it and get a view of something we may think to be the objective reality. This piece presents the same object by virtue of its function, but a completely different object by virtue of its parts. http://www.oscar-gonzalezdiaz.com/work-forte daily 0.75 2025-05-09 http://www.oscar-gonzalezdiaz.com/oscar daily 1.0 2023-11-12 http://www.oscar-gonzalezdiaz.com/about daily 0.75 2020-02-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1475977921921-VCH49B9XX69D8QKFCCVV/image-asset.jpeg Info https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1423934790367-S4DGY6RNKGW57H2SL3XQ/sleeve1.jpg Info - Twenty-One Size 1 x 9 ft Year 2013 Cotton, wood, enamel The relationship between the growth of a man and the developmental stages that come about from this is presented by reducing the identity of a person to one of its basic components; the clothing one wears. Here the allusion of time and growth is represented while showing the decisions the person has made as he grows and how those decisions affect the decisions that come after. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1423934704710-IC58USZP0PE9FWTYAE9F/sleeve2.jpg Info Detail 1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1423934704950-F1875HFUQHMJFDOP8UFL/sleeve3.jpg Info Detail 2 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1446659373817-NABM78TYMNACQGPIMKIH/Studio Info Studio shot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1423936834554-0I3I1EFIOVMZK8YZ70QR/Slabs.jpg Info - Untitled (Cloth Slabs) Size 2 x 8 x 6 in (13 pieces) Year 2014 cloth, wood, enamel A series of stacks attached onto a series of trees that attempt to engage the viewer upfront and without the aid of a gallery space. This piece becomes an expanded field of vision and rather than standing apart from the setting it is in, it becomes part of it. The work is successful in blending just enough that it creates an installation of itself, but it fails enough so that the pieces remain independent and only the space between the three designs the space and grounds the work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54d97a44e4b0de7874ef45a5/1423936826102-CLOZWZH1FG0MRDM6IBYU/IMG_2517.JPG Info Detail 1 http://www.oscar-gonzalezdiaz.com/from-chichihualco-to-chicago-nafta-in-the-internet-era daily 0.75 2019-01-05 http://www.oscar-gonzalezdiaz.com/elearning-sample daily 0.75 2023-11-12