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Maria Elena Gonzalez; art in general.
Artforum International, January, 2004 by Schwendener, Martha
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> When a home becomes inaccessible or is destroyed, remembering it can be a poignant exercise. Such an act of memory is a fact of life for much of humanity, given the magnitude of contemporary immigration and displacement. Maria Elena Gonzalez's understated, post-Minimalist work often references her own biography; like Eva Hesse and Roni Horn, she inter-lards the vocabulary of Minimalism with personal detail and uses media that purposely avoid the sanctity of the "specific object." Loss clings to her work (an earlier sculpture of two tiled stools referenced her deceased ...
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