Grizzly Linocut
Grizzly Linocut
Grizzly Linocut Print by Daniel González
Linocut print of a portrait of a grizzly bear created for High Country News.
Linocut printed on cotton rag paper
Signed and numbered limited edition
Size: Paper Size: 11.25 x 7.5 in., Image Size: 6.5 x 4.75 in.
32/40, Edition of 50
Daniel González is a Chicano graphic artist from the community of Boyle Heights in Los Angeles, California. His artwork are informed by his cultural background as the first generation born in the United States to parents from a rural community in Zacatecas, Mexico. Daniel began exploring artmaking through the creation of murals in community workshops. He began his practice as a printmaker while he was studying at the California College of Arts and Crafts, through workshops at the San Francisco Center for the Book and at Mission Gráfica at the Mission Cultural Center. Daniel completed his formal studies at UCLA and his artwork is housed in special collections internationally, on permanent display as public art at Metro’s La Cienega Station and at the LA County Natural History Musuem as part of the Becoming L.A. exhibit. Currently, Daniel’s works is part of the Smithsonian’s traveling exhibition, Printing the Revolution: Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now and teaches printmaking at the Barnsdall Art Center in Los Angeles.