Looking for a Hero or Whips Whims and Wigs and Gio Ponti is just an Excuse

Gerardo Rosales, Metallic Tears, 2018, acrylic on canvas, 60" x 72". Courtesy of the artist

Gerardo Rosales:looking For a Hero or Whips, Whims, And Wigs And Gio Ponti is Just an Excuse

In his recent works, Rosales exposes issues of social inequality experienced by immigrants coming from Latin America in search of a better life in The United States. An immigrant himself, Rosales moved to Houston from his native Venezuela 19 years ago. Rosales’s art appropriates aesthetic genres associated to folk art and geometric abstraction to call attention on issues of class, race and gender, at times with biting humor, while other times with loaded, painful drama.