By Daniel Gonzalez
Medium: linocut
Image Size: 11.85 x 9.3
Edition of 50
This image is used in the book The Ballad of Huck and Miguel - a re-telling of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, set in contemporary times and centering around Huck and an illegal immigrant in the urban environment of the Los Angeles River.
Daniel González is a printmaker and graphic designer from Boyle Heights, Los Angeles. His early childhood was shared between Mexico and the United States. Daniel's work carries strong ideals of social justice and community.
Gonzalez's work is currently part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum exhibition: ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now
By employing diverse visual and artistic modes from satire, to portraiture, appropriation, conceptualism, and politicized pop, the artists in this exhibition build an enduring and inventive graphic tradition that is only now being fully integrated into the history of U.S. printmaking.
