Tamara Gonzales has spent her life living, experiencing, understanding, and connecting with the indigenous cultures of the Americas, spiritual and ritual practices from India and the Caribbean, and with Magick, as well as undergoing healing journeys facilitated through psychedelic plant medicines, without forgetting her early years professionally decorating cakes while being immersed in counterculture and the punk music circles of the 1970s in New York. She has a personal desire to seek out and live with these marginalized and ancient cultures and rites that are often neither fully understood nor embraced in Western mainstream culture. We can recognize all of these experiences in Gonzales’s fourth exhibition at Klaus von Nichtssagend gallery. At the entrance, we are greeted by a large painting on the right wall that is as blue as Gonzales’s hair. In the main gallery are four large paintings (made with acrylic, spray paint, and pastel) and a wall with 32 small works on paper, two paintings, and two combines handsomely set into wooden boxes topped with sliding pieces of glass, laid flat on one table. Read More