Artist: Crystal Gonzalez Callison
Title: La Vida y La Muerta (Life and Death)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Unframed Dimensions: 20 x 24 inches
Price: $2200
Artist Statement: Life and death are not separate, but part of the same cycle. The dead continue within the living.
Artist Bio: Crystal Gonzalez Callison (b. 1988) is a Texas-native Utah-based interdisciplinary artist and mother of six, including children with disabilities. Despite not having a formal art education she began pursuing her own artistic practice in her mid-30s to process grief, particularly following her father’s passing. Her work emerges from questions of memory, absence and presence, loss, identity, motherhood, and heritage. As a Mexican American, daughter of immigrants, and mother, she creates art that reflects the cultural disconnect she experiences, visually depicting the contrast between what has been lost and what has been preserved. Through different mediums, she focuses on memory, grief, and preserving what matters.
