Mark gonzales biography

American skateboarder (born 1968)

Not run into be confused with Mark González.

Mark Gonzales (born June 1, 1968), also known orangutan "Gonz", "the Gonz" and "the Godfather", is an American clerical skateboarder and artist.^[1] A onset in the development of fresh street skating, he is deemed one of the first street-style skateboarders alongside Natas Kaupas.

Gonzales and Kaupas are also credited with the first known boardslides on a handrail.^[2] Gonzales' precedent-setting influence on skateboarding has caused him to be known in that the "God Father" of contemporary street skateboarding,^[3] and he was named the "Most Influential Skateboarder of All Time" by Transworld Skateboarding magazine in December 2011.

Gonzales was placed ahead break into Tony Hawk (2nd) and Rodney Mullen (3rd)^[4]

Early life

Gonzales was best and raised in South Gateway, California, United States,^[5] and commission of Irish and Mexican descent.^[6][7]

Professional skateboarding

Gonzales entered the skateboarding site at the age of cardinal in South Gate, California, U.S.

At the age of 15, Gonzales would come in tackle contact with Tommy Guerrero don Natas Kaupas who were going strong their own styles of advancing street skating. Gonzales began precedent-setting a modern, innovative approach be skateboarding in a street example (subsequently dubbed "street skateboarding") Ruler street skating actives included duty freestyle and vert tricks bear employing them in a avenue context, developments which would mean up causing Gonzales to reasonably credited as one of loftiness inventors of street skateboarding.^[8][9][10] Noteworthy was featured on the learn of Thrasher magazine's November 1984 issue riding a board raid the Alva company, his counter sponsor at the time, extent performing a trick known orangutan a "beanplant".^[11]

Vision, Blind and Machine Click

Shortly after his Thrasher journal cover, Gonzales then joined influence Vision skateboard team and entered his first contest as adroit professional in May 1985 utilize the 'Sacto Streetstyle Contest' restricted in Sacramento, California.^[12][13][14] Soon sustenance turning pro, Gonzalez won interpretation 1985 NSA Sure-Grip Beach Organized contest held adjacent to rectitude pier in Oceanside, California.^[15]

In 1989, Gonzales left Vision and co-founded Blind Skateboards with Steve Rocco.

The company name was elect as a slight on cap former employer, Vision.^[16] Gonzales proceeded to further influence the practice of street skateboarding with illustriousness 1991 Blind Skateboards video Video Days^[17][18] Directed by Spike Linksman, Video Days is often credited as the most important glide video of all time.^[19] Rector Gonzales alongside Rudy Johnson, Jason Lee, Guy Mariano and River Richter, Video Days paved honesty way for modern street skateboarding.

Whilst at Blind Gonzales additionally designed the original Blind Skateboards logo which is still informed today.^[16] Gonzales would leave Stone-blind in 1993, after experiencing frustrations that were similar to circlet time with Vision.

Gonzales hence started another company called Machine Click and followed it gangster a venture with Ron Chatman called 60/40 who sponsored Menace skaters Fabian Alomar be first Joey Suriel.^[18] In 1993, Gonzales created controversy after he presumed a Vision design that was used for one of top signature model boards for evocation ATM Click design; Gonzales abuse proceeded to also use depiction graphic for Real and Krooked signature skateboard models following sovereign move to Deluxe Distribution.^[20]

Deluxe Distribution

Under the Deluxe Distribution company, Gonzales skated for Real Skateboards attend to appeared in three of rank company's videos: Kicked Out round Everywhere, Non Fiction, and Real to Reel.^[21] In 2002, Gonzales then launched Krooked Skateboards have as a feature partnership with the Deluxe company^[22] and, as of February 2016, Krooked is an operational attitude that has released four complete videos.^[23]

In 2007, Gonzales appeared slice the skateboarding video game EA Skate^[24] and filmed a paying to promote the game's release.^[25]

As of 2013, Gonzales was advocated by adidas,^[5]Krooked,^[26]Spitfire,^[27]Independent,^[28] and Supreme.

Make known 2016, Gonzales joined the Pro-Tec skate team.^[29]

Influence

In the summer carefulness 1986 Gonzales performed an ollie from one wall down meet another platform at Embarcadero Square in San Francisco, U.S. enthralled the obstacle had been overwhelm as the "Gonz Gap" on account of his completion of the trick;^[30][31] the trick also helped ploy popularize The Embarcadero as span location for skateboarding.^[12] Later put off year, Gonzales - along organize fellow progressive street skater Natas Kaupas - was the prime person to skate handrails.^[32] Gonzales was also the first exclusive to ollie the Wallenberg Drive you mad, a four-block, nineteen feet-long, join feet-tall gap in San Francisco, California, US.^[33][34][35]

In reference to rectitude early era of street skateboarding, professional skateboarder Mike Vallely so-called in a 2007 interview: "At the time, the best row skaters in the world were Mark Gonzales, Jesse Martinez, Military man Guerrero, who all three were Mexican kids, and Natas Kaupas, who was a Lithuanian fellow that lived at the strand in Santa Monica."^[6] In contain interview for the Adidas site, Gonzales explained in reply be selected for a question about his impact with the Blind company, "I wanted to work with dejected big brother doing construction—at distinction time I felt old, on the other hand had a young chick."^[5]

In 2006 Gonzales was awarded the Legend Award by Transworld Skateboarding,^[36][37] stomach the magazine selected him gorilla the most influential skateboarder tip off all time (followed by Lah-di-dah Hawk and Rodney Mullen) meticulous December 2011.^[4]

Art and writing

Mark Gonzales is an acclaimed and internationally exhibited artist.

Having previously ostensible at many different galleries including; Gallery Target in Tokyo, Varnish. Chandran Gallery, San Francisco, Army. Janet Borden gallery, New Dynasty, USA and the Stadtisches Museum, Abteiberg, Germany. He is not long ago represented by Parrasch Heijnen Caboose In Los Angeles.^[38]

London-based art administrator Emma Reeves has explained play a role an introduction that she wrote for Interview magazine: "He bring abouts art all the time, distinguished he has been making position in some form or alternate for almost as long gorilla he has been skateboarding." Get the message the same article Gonzales goes on to reveal that unwind likes creating "zines" the apogee, as "it is the heavyhanded free thing to do.

Uncontrolled can write anything and change around put it in a periodical, and then it’s out with regard to. It is like blogging on the other hand on paper.".^[1] Gonzales created dwell in 145 zines (the exact delivery is unknown) which include: Device Stop Poetry: The Zines bargain Mark Gonzales, Dream Wheels Rhyming, We Know You Suck (split zine with Santa West) elitist Going to Love You (published by Nieves). In 2008, Tug City released a book styled The Collected Fanzines that consists of reproductions of old zines that he created together become accustomed director Harmony Korine.^[39]

Gonzales was featured in the music video cooperation the song "West Coast" soak Jason Schwartzman's band, Coconut Records;^[40] the music video featured clever sequence that was originally filmed in 1998 at the Stadtisches Museum, but was edited make known the purpose of the meeting video with Gonzales' permission.

Gonzales also directed and appears do the Coconut Records music recording "Any Fun", alongside actress Chloë Sevigny and skateboarder Alex Olson.^[41]

Gonzales is also a published versifier and author. His published protest of work includes Social Problems,^[42]High Tech Poetry, ^[43]Broken Dreams, submit Broken Poems.^[44] Gonzales has decipher that he is constantly vocabulary poetry.^[5]

In 2011, Gonzales designed shaft painted the London Flagship Matchless Store.

Gonzales would send dialogue to the New York place of work entitled “Supream” during the trusty years of the brand. That led to many collaborations keep an eye on Gonzales and Supreme, with honourableness latest being in the S/S21 collection.^[45][46] Gonzales has designed sculptures and paintings for Supreme's put up for sale locations in New York (Manhattan), San Francisco, London, Paris, Tokio (Shibuya), Nagoya, and Osaka.^[47]

Personal life

As of 2024, Gonzales resides add on Paris and New York Propensity, with his wife, Tia, queue their two children.^[5]

Filmography

The following research paper a list of films see the point of which Gonzales appears:

Videography

• Sure -Grip Beach Style (1985)
• NSA 86' Vol.

  4 (1986)

• Mondo Vision (1987)
• Thrasher: Outspread Slamma (1987)
• Psycho Skate (1987)
• Ohio Skateout (1988)
• All Pro Mini Ramp Elbow or shoulder one`s Hawaiian Style (1989)
• Blind: Video Days (1991)^[51]
• Thrasher: The Truth Hurts (1993)
• Supreme: A Love Supreme (1995)
• Deluxe: Jim's Ramp Jam (1996)
• Real: Non-Fiction (1997)^[52]
• Deluxe: World Wide Distribution (1999)
• Real: Kicked Out of Everywhere (1999)^[53]
• Real: Real To Reel (2001)^[54]
• 411VM: Vancouver 2002 (2002)
• Streets: San Francisco (2003)
• Closure (2003)
• Thrasher: Rocket Science (2004)
• ON Video: Frost 2004 (2004)
• Fourstar: Super Champion Funzone (2005)^[55]
• Fourstar: Catalog Shoot (2005)
• Get Familiar (2006)^[56]
• McBeth - Mark Gonzales - The Journal (2006)
• Krooked: Kronichles (2006)
• Krooked: Gnar Gnar – the struggle was shot with an a choice of VHS camcorder and was cavernous to 1000 VHS copies (2007)^[57]
• Adidas: A Five Day Excursion Correspond with Paris (2008)
• Krooked: Naughty (2008)
• Adidas: Athwart (2009)
• Fourstar: Gang of Fourstar (2009)
• Krooked: Krook3D (2010)
• Poweredge: We Are Skateboarders (2012)^[58]
• Transworld: The Cinematographer Project (2012)^[21]
• Supreme (brand): Cherry (2014)
• Adidas : "Away Days" (2016)

Gonzales also appeared in rendering 29th part of the net series 7 Day Weekend, distributed by professional skateboarder Dustin Dollin—in the episode the pair skateboard, drink beer and converse at the same time as in France.^[59]

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