User:Mfd281/Beatriz González

Beatriz González (Bucaramanga, 1938) is an artist from Colombia working in different media including painting, graphic arts, drawing and sculpture. Her work is associated with conceptual art, appropriation, and more recently, global Pop art.

Career
Gonzalez´s work was jumpstarted while she was a student of art by art historian and critic, Marta Traba, who linked her to an older generation of avant-garde colombian artists, mostly male painters, including Alejandro Obregón, Eduardo Ramirez-Villamizar, Enrique Grau, Edgar Negret and Fernando Botero. González is known for her use of imagery and photography taken from popular media such as magazines, newspapers and publicity, as reference for her works.

Beatriz González has also worked as a pedagogist, having started the school of guides at the Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá. Consequently, she became a mentor to several generations of scholars and artists such as Doris Salcedo.

Beatriz González has worked as a scholar and curator first at the National Museum of Colombia and later at Museo de Arte del Banco de la República. Her interest in history images and photojournalism eventually led her to focus and produce scholarship on Art History in Colombia, especially on art from the Nineteenth century.

Similar artists include Santiago Cárdenas, Álvaro Barrios and Juan Camilo Uribe. Her work has been exhibited in Colombia, America and Europe since 1962.