ABOUT ME
Raised in an artisan home, with my uncle a painter, my mother a seamstress, and my father a musician and instrument maker, art caught my attention and I have been a captive ever since. I am María L. Gómez: images, visions, and dreams embroidered in my thoughts are the fountain of my inspiration. And the harshness of urban living has provided the backdrop and pushed a more positive indwelling heart to the surface.
Being a self-taught artist, I sought out studies at the School of Visual Art in New York City, around 1980 thru 1984, and the Art Student League in 1991. Early on, I was most influenced, however, by New York City-based artist Cliff Enright, who was teaching at local high schools and his studio on the West Side of Manhattan. Later, as a mother, I turned to art therapy and started a Master’s program at Empire State College. This was interrupted by an accident, but it didn’t stop the flow.
Georgia O’Keeffe’s thoughts on finding a more simple clarity in what you experience, through artistic forms, urges us all to continue to keep those visions before you in artistic form, seeing then what always lies beyond your grasp: “Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making the unknown known is important — and keeping the unknown always beyond you.”
GUEST ARTISTS
Self-taught artists Alexis Gómez and David Gómez are also featured here, both of whom demonstrated early interest in expressing themselves through drawing, ink, marker, paint, and digital work. Alexis finds his voice producing divergent and creative forms in his artistry, and David is a born illustrator and multi-talented artist, who works fast and seemingly without boundaries. All three, mother and sons, are very different in their approaches.