Montserrat College of Art’s Annual Artrageous!27 Auction Party Announces Featured Artist Raúl Gonzalez III and Honorary Chairs

Montserrat College of Art’s annual art auction party, Artrageous!27 – http://www.montserrat.edu/auction27/ – announces well-known Boston artist Raúl Gonzalez III as this year’s featured artist. Geoff Hargadon and Patricia La Valley of Boston have been named honorary event chairs.

Artrageous!27, the North Shore’s signature spring art event, will be held Saturday, April 6 at 6 p.m. at 300 Jubilee Drive, Centennial Park, Peabody, MA, in a space donated by Brookwood Financial Partners, LLC.

Featured Artists Raúl Gonzalez was born in El Paso, TX and grew up in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, México. In 2009, Gonzalez received an award from the Artadia Foundation for Art and Culture. He was voted Boston’s best visual artist for 2010 by readers of The Boston Phoenix. His work has been exhibited widely in the northeast including The Drawing Center in New York, the Aidekman Gallery at Tufts University in Medford, MA, The Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts in Boston and Ogunquit Museum of American Art. He also has exhibited on the west coast at SCION Installation, San Francisco Art Institute and Self-Help Graphics in Los Angeles.

Gonzalez is committed to introducing youth to the visual arts and has taught in the education departments of Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art and the Museum of Fine Arts. In 2010, he worked on a large scale mural sponsored by the Boston Arts Commission installed in the neighborhood of East Boston. In 2011, Beautiful/Decay, in collaboration with Canson, awarded him a Wet Paint Grant. He then collaborated with more than 125 kids from all over Boston to create a work titled “and their Families” for the Linde Family Wing of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He is represented by Carroll and Sons, Boston.

For further information about Artrageous!27 tickets, advertising, sponsorship, art previews visit http://www.montserrat.edu/auction27/ or contact Erin Carter at erin.carter@montserrat.edu, 978-921-4242 x1114.

About Montserrat College of Art

Montserrat College of Art is a small, private, residential college of visual art and design, founded in 1970, by artists, for artists, educating the creative problem solvers of tomorrow. The college offers the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, continuing education classes and four galleries exhibiting works by international, national and regional contemporary artists, intended to offer art education beyond the Montserrat classrooms through a series of public lectures, gallery talks, catalogs and events.  www.montserrat.edu