Artist Collections: DINA GONZALEZ MASCARO

Gonzalez Mascaro is a Canadian artist born and trained in Argentina at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata where she received her MFA and later taught. In 2000, she won Argentina’s National Art Prize, the Premio Antorchas and was awarded a residency at the Banff Centre for the Fine Arts. In 2002 she completed a year-long residency at the Western Front, and since that time her art practice has been based in Vancouver.

As a sculptor, Gonzalez Mascaro’s work is always an exploration of volume, regardless of the medium or subject matter. Volume is worked via themes of structure, architecture, construction, demolition, nature, decay, memory and loss. Her search is a relentless expression of ideas in different mediums: drawing, painting, ceramics, sculpture, installation, and objects, including sculpture as fine craft (jewellery).