Wayne Gonzales
Cheering Crowd, 2008
Acrylic on maple panel
Edition of 10
11 3/4 x 11 3/4 x 1/2 inches
$1,500

Regency Arts Press Ltd. is pleased to announce a special limited edition artwork by painter Wayne Gonzales. All proceeds from the sale of this benefit edition will help support Regency.

Gonzales investigates the physical and historical act of spectatorship in both his technique and content. His crowd scenes are alienated from their distinctive social milieu, the politically charged environments of a public debate or the rowdy mass at a stock car race. Unlike the crowd imagery that became a popular theme in late nineteenth century painting, here the public is rendered passive and out of focus, suggesting that the notion of an active public consciousness is obsolete. By breaking down his source images and building them back up, Gonzales re-invests the work with a new relevance: history painting for the digital age.

Wayne Gonzales was born in New Orleans, LA. His work has been exhibited in such venues as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, P.S. 1 Center for Contemporary Art, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, among many other institutions. He is represented by Paula Cooper Gallery, New York and shows with Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, as well as other international galleries.