Alfonso Gonzales JR.
Paradise (For Lease) Incense Ashtray

The Paradise (For Lease) Incense Ashtray, produced by Studio Roosi, is based on Los Angeles based artist Alfonso Gonzales JR.'s titular painting, shown in his solo exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch gallery here in NYC.


Select solo exhibitions include This Was Here, Jeffrey Deitch, New York (2024) and There Was There, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2022). Recent museum group exhibitions include Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968, MOCA, Los Angeles (2024); Xican–a.o.x Body, American Federation of Arts, New York (2023); Singular Views: Los Angeles, Rubell Museum, Miami (2023); Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami’s Collection, ICA, Miami (2022); and Loveline, Long Beach Art Museum, CA (2022).

Through his art practice, Gonzalez synthesizes the bygone era of his childhood where he participated in punk ideology, painted graffiti, and embraced rural ranch culture. By incorporating snippets of his immediate surroundings in his paintings Gonzalez elevates, documents, and reframes the vernacular economies of Southern California.Alfonso Gonzalez (b. 1989, Los Angeles; lives and works in Los Angeles) is an artist whose work in painting developed from close observation of his father’s skillful trade in commercial sign painting. He draws inspiration in the permanence of hand painted signage and the physical weathering remnants of Los Angeles to narrate his own familial histories of labor and image making.

Paradise (For Lease) Incense Ashtray | 4" x 7" x 2" | $150