The Poetry Project

Jonathan González

A portrait reveals an ocean view expanse of blue-hues – coral, cerulean, sky blue – with the subject sitting in the foreground as an even saturation of shadowed limbs and torso, a three-button manadarin collared shirt, a profile gaze on brown skin, and the glint of bright light reflecting from an earring with a gaze motioning out the right of the frame.
© Rudy Gerson

Jonathan González is an artist and educator working at the intersections of experimental performance, prose, pedagogy and time-based media based in Philadelphia and New York. Their practice(s) seek to operate upon the formulas which cohere the individual, the built environment and systems of economic circulation through investigating the transnational currents of Black life as creative apertures for illuminating the structuring logics of the human and emancipatory choreographies. Their practice has been supported by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Trinidad Performance Institute, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Center for Afrofuturist Studies, MoMA PS1, Jerome Hill Foundation, The Momentary/Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, Abrons Arts Center, Loghaven and Art Matters Foundation. Their writing can be found through deem journal, contemporaryand, EAR|WAVE|EVENT, cultured magazine, contact quarterly, the creative independent, ASAP/J, MR Journal and Angela’s Pulse. They are currently a visiting lecturer at Columbia University’s Graduate School for Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.

https://gonzalezinfo.com