Delia Gonzalez

Delia Gonzalez has built recognition primarily through her musical partnership with Gavin Russom, though her practice also encompasses performance art and sculpture. Relocating from Miami to New York during the mid-1990s placed her within the city’s underground dance and theater circles, where she first encountered Russom. The pair’s DFA singles together with their 2005 release The Days of Mars drew widespread praise for fusing house rhythms with kosmische textures in fresh configurations. By 2010 Gonzalez chose to devote greater attention to her visual-art practice, a shift marked by the multimedia presentation In Remembrance. That project combined footage drawn from 16mm ballet films with solo piano pieces shaped by the ideas of spiritual teacher George Gurdjieff and received its first showing at Galleria Fonti in Naples, Italy. She enlarged the work with additional films for the 2012 exhibition I Must Stop Here, then developed it further for a 2013 presentation at New York City’s Clocktower Gallery. The Clocktower iteration incorporated contributions from musicians Alice Cohen and Bryce Hackford, both introduced to Gonzalez by their mutual acquaintance Viktor Timofeev. Hackford later supplied remixes of the four piano compositions for the 2015 DFA album In Remembrance. DFA returned Gonzalez to electronic music in 2017 with Horse Follows Darkness, a project shaped by her move back to the United States after a period in Berlin and by her engagement with American Western cinema.