Young Aaron in the Forest

 

Tyler Gonzales

  1997 - PRESENT

2017  

lithograph on stone 

8 13/16 x 6 3/16" image size 

pencil, lower right 

5 of 15  

pencil editioned, lower left; titled and secondarily signed and editioned along lower sheet edge 

 

cream Stonehenge wove 

published 

artist 

TYGO105 

$125.00 

Sonoma County-based artist Tyler James Gonzalez works from photos: old album photos, or ones he takes on his camera or smartphone, drawing them by eye directly onto the matrix without using photographic reproductive tools. He often focuses on images of family members and friends.

Here, Gonzales uses the litho stone to recreate a photo portrait of a young man looking at the viewer as seen from slightly below. Gonzales incorporates the texture of the medium into the composition; in this way, he's rendered the subject as much a part of the landscape - a forest - as he is an individual, lending intimacy and mystery to the work.