|| Working on the Art Piece "Diana, The Warrior Goddess of Puerto Escondío" ||
Greetings. My name is José Enrique González Márquez, a plastic artist and teacher born in the town of Lagunillas, on the Eastern Coast of Lake Maracaibo in State of Zulia, Venezuela, April 17th, 1966.
I did my first painting studies on Master Darío Suarez’s workshop, on Cabimas City from 1974 to 1976. In 1975, when I was just 10 years old, I won First Place at “I Salón de Pintura ASTRAMARA” (1st ASTRAMARA Painting Salon) at Lagunillas, my hometown.
|| Press Clipping of the Review referring to the 1st Prize of the ASTRAMARA Hall, Panorama, December, 1975. ||
In 1976, when I was 11 years old, I started to study drawing, sculpting and painting at the Municipal Institute of Culture and Fine Arts, on the Bolivar District of Cabimas, and on the same year I did my first exposition titled “Paisajes” (Landscapes) at ´Salón de la Caja de los Empleados Públicos´, at Maracaibo City, in State of Zulia.
|| "Gray Scale Composition" - Mixed Technique on Wood, 80x80cm, 2013 - Author 
I had done nine individual expositions and I’d participated on more than two hundred regional, national and international salons and collectives, winning more than 40 awards, of which 13 were nationwide in the form of Drawing.
I am represented in the Latin American Museum, Miami Florida, as well as at Museum of Contemporary Art of Zulia, "Luis Chacón" Museum of Graphic Arts, "Carmelo Fernández" Museum, "Mateo Manaure" Museum, Museum of the Plains, Urdaneta Museum, BIV Foundation, Ateneo "Casta Joaquina Riera", "Dr. Carlos Emilio Muñoz Oraá" Culture Center, "Dr. Francisco Lazo Martí " House of Culture, Fine Arts Center of Maracaibo, French Alliance of Zulia, Mayor of Maracaibo Municipality, “Conoce Tu Puente” (Know Your Bridge) Cultural Complex in Maracaibo and in many important private collections
|| "Heart on Coconut" - Mixed Technique on Wood, 90x90cm, 2013 - Author
On a Urban Level, my most outstanding pieces are, the sculptural set for the Plazoleta del V Centenario, placed on the “Conoce Tu Puente” (Know Your Bridge) Cultural Complex and the Pictorial Mural alluding to the "Glory of Sport”, created in the framework of the Copa América (American Cup), located in the spaces of the Velodrome, "Pachencho Romero" Stadium, in Maracaibo, Zulia.
|| "Gloom, Hands and Gears" - Mixed Technique on Wood, 82x82cm, 2014 - Author
I was a Founder Member of AVAPCOL, Asociación de Artistas Plásticos de la Costa Oriental del Lago (Association of Artists of the East Coast of the Lake). Currently I work as Head of Chair and Professor on Drawing specialty of the Experimental Faculty of Arts of the University of Zulia, as well as Drawing and Painting at the Technical School of Plastic Arts "Julio Arraga".
|| "Pegasus in Ocher and Gold" - Mixed Technique on Fabric, 150x120cm, 2009 - Author
I have a lot of interest on be part of this Platform and participate by sharing my work, through the evaluation on the implementation of my job, as it is drawing and its formal process, which as I understand, is ranked on a base of curation by a group of specialist, designers, illustrators and artists on the media or that are part of this multi-plastic context across the web, something that is truly new for me, taking in consideration my lack of experience on the social media. Actually, I just have one year using Facebook, I don’t have an Instagram neither.
|| "Project for a Serrasaimus Altuvei for the 'San José' River" - 80x80cm, 2011 - Author
I particularly consider this platform as a way to share my art and project it through a plural window that offers the opportunity to learn and grow within a reflexive human group, which supports and encourages art, along the interaction and integration in contexts where creativity is deprived as a mean of essential expression, sensitive and primordial, which in turn encourages and motivates the concretion and evolution of new proposals and languages within the practice of plastic arts in general and other artistic and cultural expressions.
|| "The Stigma and the Nightingale" (Detail) - Mixed Technique on Wood, 2014 -
I can also offer descriptive contents about Development Process in Plastic Approaches Execution, such as drawings from the original outline of the sketch and frame, on mixed technics with dry and aqueous media: charcoal, cuttlefish, sanguine, pastel chalks, smudges, greasy crayons, combined with gouaches based on inks and acrylics diluted in toned spots, on supports such as primed cloth, cardboard, wood veneers and paper. All those techniques used in the performance of my work as an Artist in full exercise of such important way of expression as Drawing is.
|| "A Martyrdom for The Fortune in the 21st Century " - Mixed Technique on Paperboard, 120x100, 2009 - Author
To finish this note, I hope to count with this platform to share, project and let others know about contents with a technic process base and at the same time, the practical in order to record and impart knowledge and learning within the execution of the exercise and formal foundations, as well as conceptual and the means of expression to use on Plastic Arts.
|| "Iris, the Caribbean Goddess" - Mixed Technique on Wood, 65x65, 2014 - Author
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