San Antonio artist and activist Suzy González debuts new portraits in solo exhibition 'Plantcestors'

Artist and activist Suzy González is launching her newest solo exhibition, "Plantcestors," at Galería E.V.A. this week. A portmanteau of the words “plant” and “ancestors,” "Plantcestors" uses actual plant materials as a base for 14 portraits of people based in San Antonio’s arts and activist scenes. González refers to the artists as “based in Yanaguana,” using the name given to the area by its native inhabitants, the Payaya people. In the creation of these works, González photographed and chatted with her chosen portrait models; gardened, foraged and gathered plant matter; and then pressed, dehydrated, glued and resined several layers of the material to form a base for the paint.