On the Wall: Tamara Gonzales

About the Exhibition

On the Wall is PCG’s annual commission of large-scale artworks applied directly to the walls of the Reilly Gallery. As part of an interdisciplinary initiative at the College to explore and develop new scholarship on the rich traditions of the mural format, Tamara Gonzales, an artist based in New York, has transformed the exhibition space with pattern, color and compositional allusions to towering figures.

Gonzales is known for incorporating visual culture that is traditionally associated with lived culture — lace, graffiti, embroidery, textiles and more. Her paintings, drawings and textiles render blocky figures amongst multi-colored fields of florals and faux bois. Created by a range of techniques, from spray painting through lengths of lace to block printing sections of canvas, the artist’s oeuvre shows a unique commitment to developing abstraction through prisms of multiculturalism. On the Wall: Tamara Gonzales continues that commitment with wall-climbing geometric and organic shapes, bright colors and dense patterns coming together in a room-sized mural artwork.

On the Wall: Tamara Gonzales is organized by Kate McNamara, PCG Curator at Large.