Nina Gonzalez-Rubio is an artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. Ms. Gonzalez-Rubio creates mixed-media drawings and paintings that incorporate oil paint, acrylic paint, pastel, relief carving, and crochet. 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 recently completed her Artist Apprentice position with the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, working under their Working Artist Fellow, 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 Ojalá in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month

My work focuses on what it is like to live as an introvert in an extroverted world. I illustrate this theme through my lens by rendering my subjects, who are usually variations of myself, as they undergo physical metamorphoses during seemingly solitary moments. I pair this narrative with the manipulation of visual perspective, color, shape, and texture to further convey the sentiments in each piece. This ongoing series navigates me through a world of social challenges as a wallflower trying to break out of my shell.