“Prickly Pear #1” (2025)
By Caroline Gonzales
Mixed Media on Canvas
48” Tondo
"BETWEEN MOMENTS explores the shifting emotional spaces that exist between stillness and movement, selfhood and the daily demands that shape it. Color is the central language of the exhibition: surprising, unplanned, and alive. Hues collide, drift, and reappear in ways that echo the unpredictability of the interior life.
In these contrasts, the work holds the emotional dualities that accompany each day like joy and overwhelm, tenderness and restlessness, chaos and calm. These pieces are created in the quiet intervals of a full life from late nights when the house finally settles to brief pockets of solitude between a baby's naps.
Motherhood, while never the literal subject, is an unmistakable presence. It shapes the rhythm of the work with the pauses, the returns, and the accumulated layers of feeling. Yet the paintings also honor the space where identity extends beyond mothering, where the artist reconnects with herself through color, gesture, and reflection.
BETWEEN MOMENTS is, at its core, a meditation on becoming. It's a reminder to us that the most vivid parts of life often appear in the moments we can't fully plan or predict. The exhibition invites viewers into that space, where emotion stirs, color breathes, and something honest rises to the surface. It is within these delicate intersections that the artworks truly thrive, offering a sanctuary for pause, reflection, and the appreciation of the richness found in the in-between moments." -Caroline
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