“The Beauty of the natural world lies in the details.”
— Natalie Angier
ARCILIA ANGELES GONZALEZ
Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Arcilia developed her skills primarily using pencil and pen to recreate scenes she found interesting. She graduated from the University of Saint Mary in Leavenworth, Kansas, as an undergraduate student with a double major in Studio Art (with a concentration in drawing) and English. Her education has expanded her mediums and now she has produced a body of work that explores different techniques using primarily charcoal to create scenic drawings.
Her work has been shown in the Goppert Gallery at the University of Saint Mary for various student exhibits, as well as at Ten Thousand Villages Fair Trade Store in Lawrence, Kansas, Austin Public Library for West Austin Studio Tour, and at the Artes de la Rosa Annex Gallery in Fort Worth. Arcilia has also gathered experience with art handling, gallery preparation, and maintenance by working for the University of Saint Mary’s Art Department and SavArt Gallery in Kansas City, Kansas, and Displays Fine Art Services.
Arcilia continued to experiment with charcoal as well as other dark mediums while living in Austin, Texas, and back in her hometown of Fort Worth, Texas. Currently, she is taking in the beautiful scenery near Charlotte, North Carolina!
“I create pieces using charcoal to strip down my work to the basic elements of light and dark, texture, and above all, detail. While I appreciate using other media, working with mediums that limit my color palette to black and white is challenging. I see powerful detail in landscapes and I want my work to encourage my viewers to go out and observe the natural environment. My goal is to capture a scene that feels so simple, yet contains so much.”
“A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors”
— Henry David Thoreau