Ana González

Working across media, Ana González honors the extraordinary landscapes of her home country, Colombia. While celebratory, her work is also a warning call, shedding light on ecological degradation and the accompanying loss of culture and lifeways among people who reside in the country’s forests and along its rivers, many of whom are Indigenous. González’s Riley CAP Gallery exhibition continues her study of the effects of human intervention on the environment. The artist cites as an influence German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, who theorized in the mid-nineteenth that nature is a complex and delicate web susceptible to even the slightest disturbance. Such fragility manifests in González’s landscapes printed on roughened tarp. Unweaving the threads along the bottom of each textile, the artist transforms a portion of the scene into a ghostly rendering, reminding us that these ecosystems are vanishing in real time.

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