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Maria Elena González

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American (born Cuba)
Birth/Death
born 1957-

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Artwork by Maria Elena González
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Maria Elena González is an American sculptor who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, and the San Francisco Bay Area. She was born in Havana two years before the Cuban Revolution. When she was 11 years old, she and her family moved to Miami. They later settled in New York. González’s work is influenced by the minimalist and conceptual art movements of the 1960s. She creates art installations and public art. Her work is often inspired by or includes architecture. Many of her works are interactive.

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María Elena González (born 1957) is a Cuban-American sculptor based in Brooklyn and the Bay Area. She is known for objects, installations and public art that interweave post-minimalist form, conceptual art and concern for materials and craft. Her early work explored themes of memory, family, identity, loss and dislocation through formal, architectural and mapping modes that address site, place and social circumstances; her later work makes connections between nature and art, engaging a broad range of media and sensory experience. In 2020, artist and scholar Ellen Levy wrote "González's art re-invents nature as culture" through an "exquisite attunement" that uncovers formal and thematic analogies between both realms and synesthetic connections between visual and aural senses. González has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Rome Prize, and an Anonymous Was a Woman Award, among other recognition. Her work belongs to the public collections of international museums including the Solomon R. Guggenheim…