Jorge Gonzalez

Jorge Gonzalez Mexico City, 1967 

Industrial Designer and Visual Artist 

He Studied furniture and object design at the Design School of the National Institute of Fine Arts (Formerly the handicraft school of the citadel, Mexico City, founded by the teacher Jose Chávez Morado) with teachers such as Jorge Best (Murals and mosaics) and Gerardo Rodriguez (Industrial Design Manual, 1986). He dedicated himself for a time to the design of wooden furniture in the company Puertas y Muebles de Oaxaca SA de CV owned by Mr. Juan Manuel Rodriguez y Rodriguez. In 1995 he worked for the sculptor Juan Carlos Canfield with whom he collaborates making sets and props for plays such as Pedro Páramo and 10 contemporary dance productions for the INBA dance company directed by the former stage director Jose Luis Cruz. 

Since 2000, he has been dedicated to packaging and packaging design, counting among his clients cosmetic manufacturing companies such as Avon and Sainsburys’ s in England, Argentina, Brazil and India. 

His career and work are characterized by a combination of innovation and implementation of known techniques where products evolve gradually without major changes in production costs, an example of this is the change in the design of the Ponds cream pot and the gradual change in its labeling system, being the first to implement 360-degree labels in the Latin American region. 

It can be said that this characteristic in his work as a designer has also been the basis of his plastic work, which shows his fresh creativity, his skill with drawing and his proficiency in color, a Mexican heritage undoubtedly transformed by his travels and their international stays, disrupted by innovation, but adapted to traditions. 

His abstractions are visually disturbing, the viewer is invited to try to solve and put some order to the enigma represented by the forms enclosed by black stripes in their intricate “chaos,” an endless visual puzzle that entertains and marvels. (https://www.larayanegra.com/product/raya-negra/) 

Jorge and “La raya negra” are the same, the concept of the black line arises because of their technical expression by surrounding with a black line the outline of their random and unrepeatable shapes, taking a step back in the process that imprisons the creativity of the apprentices of his own and some other generations, who like him were instructed not to step out of the black line. 

Jorge has ventured into sculpture and painting, his “creatures” and characters are a representation of the most contemporary human emotions. 

Jorge has participated in solo exhibitions in Mexico, Argentina and the United States and his works are in the hands of private collectors. 

His most recent work is exhibited in the following links: 

https://www.larayanegra.com