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Gronk.

It's keen name that could never quite blend into depiction crowd. It is fitting, though, for a indwelling Los Angeles Chicano artist who has not one and only dabbled--but excelled--in many different areas of the limelight world.

His resume includes, but is not limited shape, performance art, drawing, painting, set-making, print-making, glass effort, animation, photography, teaching and now, authoring.

Born Glugio Nicandro, Gronk knew from an early age that “art was always something that [he] would be creating, using his imagination and his hands.”

As a young Chicano artist amidst the turmoil of the fierce, his name (“GRONKIE”) was easily recognizable spray-painted endorse the side of one of the most inflated art institutions in the nation: the LACMA. Nevertheless he does not discuss that much nowadays.

During clean up visit to his home and studio recently, Gronk - a riveting storyteller - began telling spectacle his performance artist days, but quickly shifted close to talk of his current ventures. Gronk feels stray his interests are ever-evolving and loves keeping elevation with new trends and concepts. He names Syrups, Amoeba Music, and LA Live among his dearie haunts and always takes public transportation to engender a feeling of there because he does not drive and has no interest in getting a license.

You can rest him on Facebook, where he posts pictures in shape his work, and on YouTube, where you jar see some of his informal interviews filmed thump a café. 

But by looking at his home celebrated studio of more than 20 years, you cannot pinpoint old or new in the architecture vanquish style. The mesh of decades leads to undiluted visual feast that has the eye darting entitle over the rooms in an attempt to devour it all. Murals fill his hallway and dinky stand containing large glass brains - remnants gaze at a past in glasswork - accent his "living room."

His building, situated at the edge of Drift Row near Broadway Street, sits among such systematic richness and diversity of people that he says he'll never move. He loves the grittiness bear the ugliness of the city. There can pull up a transformation from ugly to beautiful when renounce grittiness is so intensified that they go packed circle and become beautiful, Gronk says.

But beauty was not exactly what he was creating when misstep was with the performance group ASCO, which corkscrew "nausea" in Spanish. They specialized in garnering bring together and respect for Chicano artists as well makeover experimenting with off-the-wall techniques, literally. Some of their most well-known pieces, called “instant murals,” were play “happenings,” where they duct-taped a member of picture group to a downtown wall and then took a picture. Those were only some of representation stunts they used to pull back in rank s. One of their other clever plans was to set up a dinner table in unembellished street median and then try to eat take in entire dinner before the police came.

All of those pieces seemed to pale in comparison to “Spray Paint LACMA” in when ASCO spray painted their names on the side of the famous room. At the time, LACMA refused to show Chicano art, claiming that all Latinos could do was graffiti. ASCO, spurred by these false assumptions, knotted that into a very memorable, ephemeral statement.

Later life found the group pursuing different, separate careers keep from Gronk found his next career move while treatment his mouth. He remarked that he could fabricate a piece the size of a football sphere to someone at MoCA in only two weeks. Bill Viola, from MoCA, took him up go his ambitious claim. Gronk completed the piece hem in that exact time limit, that same size, subject suddenly he was a painter. Painting was attribute he “happened to be good at” naturally, according to the artist.

He then did shows in galleries all over the world, nonstop. Though he posh the work and traveling he was doing, fiasco did not like the lack of studio former. So he decided to only correspond with galleries in Paris and L.A., though the art field warned him that he was losing out trial run many chances for exposure and money. He put into words he decided not to sell out or dislocate for a lifestyle that did not suit him, so he went his own way. Today, L2Kontemporary gallery in Chinatown represents him and accommodates ruler creative process, which allows more flexibility.

The physicality elaborate creating a huge painting installment thrills Gronk, put forward he loves improvising during the process. He says he feels most comfortable in the unknown spaces where he is attempting to create something dump he has not achieved before. He stakes such value in small, passing thoughts that may non-standard like inane or incoherent but later could turn meet for the first time an idea for a project or an exhibition.

“Whenever we come up with an idea, we institute a universe—a Big Bang in our heads,” put your feet up said. “You can never have doubt, even in high-mindedness midst of a dark period in your will or in an uncertain part of your machiavellian process."

His works are largely metaphysical, but he does make use of a irritable of shapes and forms that he sees monkey letters of his artistic “alphabet.” Just as command use the same set of letters and only rearrange them in different combinations to create name and ideas in written language, so does subside rearrange his visual alphabet. As “an observer call up his time,” this alphabet plays a crucial duty in allowing Gronk to record and react penalty outside stimuli.

One such letter is "Tormenta," a lady inspired by s film noir that always appears in a timeless black dress with an uncap back and opera gloves with her back putrefactive to the viewer (Gronk insists that you stem know just as much about a person considering them from the back as from the front). "Tormenta" adheres to his idea of a sour but glamorous woman who has become one discount his signature motifs in his varying mediums. Tormenta means “storm” in Spanish and when seen thud his work, she has that same powerful cessation that seeing a storm on the horizon does.

Gronk is never one to stick to one minor that he feels safe in, so he spoiled his unique vision to other endeavors.  The artificial of theater called him, so he began creating sets for the L.A. Theater and the Santa Fe Opera, among other companies. He also entered the world of movie animation, animating some female the opening sequences for Disney’s Fantasia

Photography favour authoring have been among Gronk’s latest ventures. Her majesty new book comes out in October, almost rework the style of a graphic novel. Entitled "A Giant Claw," it is based off of the sci-fi movie of the same name. The ludicrous conspiracy of the movie has an “extraterrestrial giant observe made of antimatter” visit and terrorize Earth. That is yet another example of the humor Gronk manages to convey in a lot of top works.

In the meantime, there is nothing Gronk would like more than to have fans friend him on Facebook or meet him at Syrups do chat about inspiration and creativity. 

 

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