Ricardo Blanco-Gonzalez

Ricardo Blanco-Gonzalez (born 1966) began painting when he was two or three years old.  Since then, painting, and creating art in general, has been his refuge.  His talents were noticed early, and he received a scholarship to study Fine Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.  After studying there for two years, he left to work independently.
His work is about memory.  “Colors in European stained glass windows from childhood trips to churches.  Vietnamese suffering (on TV), images of earth as it was first seen as whole - and its destruction.” There is a physical and emotional component to the work.  The two are used singularly as a means to express the complexity of Mr. Blanco-Gonzalez’s experience.  We sense the need to find grounding through his use of color and stroke.  This has the effect of seeing them as one sees the city at night - driving quickly through rainy streets - leaving only a stream of light behind:  impressions.  These works are a colorful journey for the eye, and yet their beauty is deeper because they evoke the mystery of the emotional world.