As a Mexican artist, I connect deeply with nature through the act of painting, exploring the intricate beauty of the world around me. I am fascinated by the play of light and texture, capturing fleeting moments and the essence of my environment. My work is inspired by the rhythms and vibrancy of nature, reflecting a reverence for its constant transformation.
Influenced by Rufino Tamayo, I strive to blend vibrant colors and textured surfaces to evoke emotion and bring life to my images. My process is a meditative journey—each brushstroke a deliberate effort to preserve the ephemeral beauty of the natural world and share its timeless stories.

Artist Bio

Ruth Gonzales is a Mexican artist born in Mexico and trained in the Hermosillo, Sonora region. She initially studied the classics at the Academy of Social Studies and further developed her artistic skills under the mentorship of Mario Moreno Zazueta and Roberto Bejarano during the 1980s.
Gonzales is known for her evocative references to nature and landscapes, which became a central focus of her work following a profound spiritual journey. Her art explores the rhythms and textures of the natural world, capturing its essence through vibrant colors and expressive brushwork.
In 1990, Ruth relocated to the United States, where she exhibited her work in both Georgia and California. She continues to create large-scale paintings that delve into the dynamic patterns and pulse of nature. Ruth currently lives and works in Palm Springs, California, where she remains dedicated to exploring the timeless beauty of the natural environment through her art.

ABSTRACT AIRS, NATURAL RESPONSES: THE ECO-PAINTING OF RUTH GONZALES AND LORIEN SUAREZ-KANERVA
 
Many pheomena motivate abstract artists. Indeed, one of the advantages of abstract painting is the platform it affords for tackling myriad disparate issues and ideas in a single work – not just in what that work shows, but in what it considers, what it associates, what it brings together. The ecological urgencies of our time, for instance, are not simply depicted in the work of concerned, committed artists like Ruth Gonzales and Lorien Suarez-Kanerva, but are at once approximated – left “open” to both interpretation and modification – and transcended. Suarez-Kanerva’s burgeoning circular geometries, and even her floral stylizations, conjure everything from the orbits of planets to the bodies of microbes, evincing the microscopic and macroscopic at once and cultivating fantastical shapes, colors, and movements in the evocation of natural force, terrestrial and otherwise.
Ruth Gonzales’s delicate and diffident abstract-impressionist manner, by contrast, muses upon the gentle surfaces of those substances that host the ongoing transition between living and non-living organisms, between life forms and their detritus and the unliving – or perhaps not-yet-living – materials out of which organic matter can assemble. Gonzales inherits from Monet and Rothko, Okada and Klee, Suarez from Kandinsky and Mondrian, Kupka and Popova – but the two painters seem less revivalists than revitalists, animating high-modernist form not ironically but passionately. The modernists embraced nature even as they obscured it. Lorien Suarez-Kanerva and Ruth Gonzales embrace nature in order to clarify, and celebrate, its very complexity.
 
Peter Frank, Curator, “An Embrace of Nature,” Exhibition November 2023
Art space 349 Gallery, Palm Desert Ca.

Exhibitions:
2022 Eva Hart Gallery, Palm Desert Ca.
2017  Studio Tom Hammond, Palm Desert. Ca.
2017  Jorge Mendez Gallery 'PATHWAYS' Palm Springs, Ca.
2017  Deanna Miller Gallery, Palm Desert Ca.
2016  Jorge Mendez Gallery, Group Exhibition Palm Springs, Ca.
2015  Jorge Mendez Gallery 'GROUP OF 7: CONTEMPORARY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN ARTISTS' Palm Springs, Ca.
2014  Art Space 349 CONCERT AND EXHIBITION  'Love Poems' 2012-2013  Art Space 349 Palm Springs, Ca.
2012  Alicia Armstrong Gallery, Palm Desert CA
2011  Art Space 349 Painting and  Piano Recital with Stanislav Khristenko, Studio Ca.
2011  Art Tribe, Los Angeles, Ca.
2011  Alicia Armstrong Gallery, Palm Desert Ca.
2010  Copal Gallery, Palm Desert CA
2011  Brueton L.A. West Hollywood, Ca.
2009  Besting, Irvine Ca.
2008  Studio Gallery, Irvine Ca.
2009  Naomi Silva Gallery, "Two Women"Atlanta Ga.
2008  Marriott Desert Springs, "Desierto y Luz" Palm Desert, Ca.
2007  Design Center Oliver Walker, Atlanta, Ga.
2007  Brueton L.A. Designs,West Hollywood, Ca.
2007  Alta States collections, Palm Springs, Ca.
2007  Desert Spring Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
2007  Modern Master Gallery, Palm Desert, Ca.
2006  Naomi Silva Gallery,   " Group Show"  Atlanta, Ga.
2006  Desert Springs, Marriott Exhibit, Palm Desert, Ca.
2005  Gallery 310, Two Artist Croatia and Mexico, Portland, Ore.                                      
2005  Collections of Mirak Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, Ca. 
2004  Gallery Asto, "The poetics of Space"  Los Angeles, Ca.
2004  Art at El Paseo Square, Sam Francis -Ruth Gonzales, Palm Desert, Ca.
2004  Mikim Home Collections, Costa Mesa, Ca. 
2003  Sterling Estates, Rancho Mirage, Ca.
2003  Naomi Silva Gallery, Atlanta, Ga.
2003  Arte Gallery, Palm Desert, Ca.
2003  Tre' Contemporary Gallery, Palm Desert, Ca.
2003  Don O'melveny Galley,  "Flutters of Beings" Los Angeles, Ca.
2003   Mikim Collections, Costa Mesa, Ca.
2003  Gallery Adrienne Contemporary, La Jolla, Ca.
2002  Collections of Sterling States, Rancho Mirage, Ca. 
2001  Sunyata Gallery, San Pedro, Ca.
2000   Don O'melveny Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca. 
1998   Lears Gallery, "Luz y Sombras"  Palm Desert Ca.

Bibliography and Film Production Contributions: 
2011  Art Tribe,West Hollywood  Films 'Think like a Man' Hollywood, Ca.
2007  For Touchstone, 'Brothers and Sisters Series' Hollywood, Ca.
2005  Winter/Spring Palm Springs Life ART and  Culture 2005, Palm Springs, Ca.
2005  Pride of Palm Desert / Desert Magazine Art Has Visual Payoff, Palm Desert, Ca.
2003  Documentary of  Ray Charles 'Unchain My Heart' Hollywood. Ca. 
2003  Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia  ‘Confidence' Hollywood, Ca.
2003  Angeleno Magazine, High Desert Style Palm Springs, Ca.
2003  Art in america, Ruth Gonzales Paintings: Don O'melveny  Gallery,  Los Angeles, Ca.
1999  March Artist Catalogue ‘Abstract Elegant’ Don O'melveny Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca.
1999  Echoes of Music in Glowing Colors by Shirley Gottlieb.