beyondbeing
Jonlouis’s first solo exhibition at Art on Paper NY, opening September 4 - 7th.
With these eight new paintings, the artist turns his focus inward, reflecting on intuition, synergy, and earthbound frequencies. The title “Beyond Being” refers to our instinctive connection with our surroundings and our ability to receive and interpret signs from both the physical environment and beyond. Through his intuitive use of watercolor and free-flowing techniques, Gonzalez creates soft, dreamlike scenes that transport the viewer to unexplored worlds, spaces filled with both wonder and familiarity. Created in bold oil-stick strokes the cacti symbolize endurance, protection, and survival.
Within these ethereal works, Gonzalez embeds his “Astro figures” resembling the duality of human existence as both earthly and divine, fragile yet resilient. In the flourishing cacti, running rivers, and stillness of nature, rays of sunlight embrace their bodies. Softly transmitting answers, clues, confirmations, and guidance from the universe. With a gaze to the sky, the astro figures seem to offer a path of communication, inviting us to tune in.
Imagined Reality
Jonlouis’s fifth solo exhibition at Scope International Contemporary Art Show, opening Dec 3rd.
What separates us from our thoughts?
Imagined Reality explores our natural and boundless connection to the unseen world and our ability to bridge the gap between imagination and reality. Created with various free-flowing mediums, the eight new featured paintings mark an evolution in Jonlouis’s dynamic style—his compositions becoming softer, and communicating remarkable depth. Reflecting through fragmented memory and perspective, they recall an intimate sense of revelation, when a moment of clarity is beginning to unfold before your eyes or the feeling of becoming in tune with the cosmos. The background is conceptualized through subtle colors and dye techniques, heavy textures reveal rain and bodies of water, enveloping the characters and their surroundings. Jonlouis presents water as life's matter and matrix, and our search for renewal, clarity, and enlightenment.
Lay of the Land
Jonlouis’s group show exhibition at Vertical Gallery, Chicago, opening April 4th, 2025.
My latest collection, “Lay of the Land,” was inspired by my residency on small ranches in Jalisco, Mexico. Living and working alongside the locals, I sought to understand how relying on the land—as a source of nourishment, life, and even recreation—shapes our sense of purpose and belonging.
Using oils and airbrush on “Amate,” a traditional pre-Hispanic bark paper made from fig tree fiber and flattened with volcanic rock, I illustrate the profound bond between humanity and the land. These pieces reveal how embracing our role as harvesters and caretakers can bring a deeper sense of clarity, reminding us that land is more than just soil—it is the very source of life.
