Julio Gonzalez
Website: wonderwhatif.com
Instagram: @gonza_art
LinkedIn: @Julio Gonzalez
Artist: Julio Gonzalez
Email: wonderwhatifcontact@gmail.com
ABOUT: Julio Gonzalez is a self-taught multimedia artist and a native of Atlanta, Georgia. Since leaving Atlanta as a young teenager, Gonzalez has traveled extensively and exhibited his work in murals, galleries, and museums across the Southeast. One of Gonzalez’s defining characteristics as an artist is his use of Mexican and Mayan design elements to explore questions of contemporary life and values.
Gonzalez cites the simple question “What if?” as a cornerstone of his creativity and practice, a way to approach his ideas from different sides and explore them to the fullest. He hopes viewers of his work will find themselves asking the same question and rediscovering their sense of interconnectedness, curiosity, and childlike wonder. The simple phrase “What if?” is the concept behind the name Wonder What If, a project of which Gonzalez is the Creative Director.
Gonzalez serves as a member of the Arts Impact CLT advisory group.
MEDIA COVERAGE
Tempted to Touch: A Creative’s Push for PDA During a Pandemic - Charlotte is Creative
Julio Gonzalez Makes Art For The World - QC Exclusive
Arts to Watch 2018: Julio Gonzalez Confronts Death - Creative Loafing Charlotte
Two Turntables and an ArtPop Billboard - NC Arts & Science Council
