My name is D. González and I was born and raised somewhere between the small mountain town of El Teúl de Gonzalez Ortega, Zacatecas and Boyle Heights, in the Republic of East Los Angeles. I love printmaking and letterpress and I like doing it well. I was introduced to printmaking during my two year stay at California College of Arts (and Crafts) in Oakland on a generous full scholarship that was yanked when the school got tired of handing out money (true story!). I studied graphic design and chose to stick with print design and that's where I fell in love with the smell of ink and the click-ity clack of the press. While people were going ga-ga over pixels and the internet, I was craving obsolete printing technologies and sexy handmade papers. I like the chingazo letterpress gives the paper and the pretty bruise it leaves behind. Alot of my work is about narratives passed down to me through folk stories, social commentary, life and the human comedy. Some of it is allegorical and works very much in the tradition of Jose G. Posada, Manuel Manilla and Leopoldo Mendez. Take a look-see...
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