Nina Gonzalez-Rubio is an artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. Ms. Gonzalez-Rubio makes mixed-media drawings and paintings that include oil, acrylic, pastels, and embroidery. She uses invented subjects and loose, textural marks to create narratives about her personal experiences and relationships. She is a BFA graduate of Georgia State University and has won the Nancy Goyer Endowed Scholarship through internal merit. Ms. Gonzalez-Rubio currently works as an Artist Apprentice through the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, with their Working Artist, Corrine Colarusso. Outside of her apprenticeship, Ms. Gonzalez-Rubio has attended a 3-week residency at Elf School of the Arts in Hayesville, North Carolina, and has taken part in many exhibitions in Georgia. Her most recent exhibitions include the Annual Guardian Studios Exhibition at Echo Contemporary and Homesick in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month

My work focuses on what it is like to live as an introvert in an extroverted world. I extend this viewpoint through my lens by rendering my subjects as they undergo various physical metamorphoses, like melting, peeling, and cracking. I pair this narrative with the manipulation of visual perspective, color, shape, and texture to further convey the sentiments that take place in each piece. This ongoing series navigates me through a world of social challenges as a wallflower trying to break out of their shell.