Klaus von Nichtssagend is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition of paintings by Tamara Gonzales, opening January 12 and on view through February 17, 2024. Titled Amplifiers, the show will feature new works focusing on ornate frame motifs that encompass the outer bounds of each canvas as well as paintings featuring Gonzales’s distinctive cast of figures and animalian forms.
In medicinal discourse, an amplifier is something that enhances the effect of a substance to push one’s experience to a desired effect. The image of the frame is foregrounded in these new works, alluding to a time when an elaborate frame served as the finishing touch on a work of art, meant to enhance its beauty in the eye of the beholder. Gonzales’s frame images are patterned with frolicsome lines and marks, which are developed through her direct drawing process. The interior of the canvases lack a rendered subject and are instead filled with swashes of color or brushstrokes. Gonzales sees this deep and expansive space as psychically reflective: a mirror of sorts, amplified by its boundaries.