Matt gonzalez for mayor poster

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  • With the site in hand I designed a look for the campaigns posters, buttons, and stickers.
  • I'm very proud to be part of this exhibition; The Mexican Museum has acquired my “Matt Gonzalez for Mayor of San Francisco” poster for it's collection, and it.
  • Rich Lesnik

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  • Matt Gonzalez Bio

    Matt Gonzalez, 1999. Photograph by Elizabeth Ross.

    SHORT BIO

    Matt Gonzalez was born in McAllen, Texas. He received his B.A. at Columbia University and J.D. from Stanford Law School. After a decade as a deputy public defender in San Francisco Gonzalez served a term on the 11-member Board of Supervisors. He thereafter co-founded a civil rights law firm Gonzalez & Leigh LLP, which was active from 2005-2012, and was Ralph Nader’s running mate in 2008 on an Independent ticket. In early 2011, he returned to the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office as Chief Attorney. 

    Since 2006 he has exhibited artworks in a variety of Bay Area art venues including Park Life, Guerrero Gallery, Adobe Books, Incline Gallery, and Johansson Projects. He has shown with Dolby Chadwick Gallery since 2014.

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    LONG BIO

    Early Years

    Matthew Edward Gonzalez was born on June 4, 1965 in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, in the city of McAllen, Texas (pop. 35,000 in 1965), nine miles north of the U.S. — Mexican border and 250 miles south of San Antonio, Texas. At the time of his birth the family lived in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

    Gonzalez’s mother Oralia Martinez Rendon is a native of Jalisco, Mexico. His father

    About The Matt Gonzalez Reader

    Photo of Matt Gonzalez by Nick Bygon, 2008.

    Art & Politics: The Matt Gonzalez Reader collects various interviews, opinion editorials, essays, art reviews, and other writings by Matt Gonzalez on issues related to art and politics, many of which are no longer in print or otherwise available online. The postings are reprinted from their original place of publication, including monographs and catalogs published by art galleries, which include:

    The Argonaut
    As It Ought To Be
    Berkeley La Raza Law Journal
    BeyondChron
    BLISSS Magazine
    Ceramics: Art & Perception
    Comet Magazine
    CounterPunch

    Crocker Art Museum
    Davis Enterprise
    FMSBW
    Fog City Journal
    48 hills
    Frey Norris Contemporary
    Golden Gate [X]press
    Hollis Taggart
    Joshua Liner Galley
    Jules Maeght Gallery
    Juxtapoz
    Luggage Store Gallery
    Mark Moore Gallery
    Medium
    Mesh Magazine
    Michael Rauner Photography

    Moth Belly Gallery
    The New Fillmore
    North Bay Progressive Journal
    Paragon Books
    Plastic Antinomy
    The Recorder
    San Francisco Arts Quarterly
    San Francisco Bay Guardian
    San Francisco Bay View Newspaper
    San Francisco Call
    San Francisco Chronicle
    San Francisco Examiner
    San Francisco Frontlines
    Squarecylinder
    Stanford Humanities Review
    Thomas Reynolds Gallery
    The Trial Lawyer

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