The Legend, Mark Gonzales Finds Perfect Balance in Fine Art and Skateboarding, HYPEBEAST Diaries

HYPEBEAST meets up with artist Mark Gonzales in his Lower East Side studio. The Supreme team member still skates, but has mellowed from his raucous early years. I think at 50, I think I reached the type of maturity where my art is fine art, he chuckles. Where before it was just kid stuff. Maybe inside the skateboard world Im someway on the outside, Gonzales reflects. Im a different way. As he manuals through Chinatown and shows us the knickknacks inside his studio space, he meditates on the contrast between his physical approach to skateboarding and emotional take on artwork. Im not afraid to break a bone or lose my teeth, Gonzales affirms. But I like soft colors, I like pink, I like a lot of things that arent really Inside the space, the Gonz maneuvers around halffinished canvases, Funko Pop figurines, old skate magazines and retro Makaha boards to get to his windowside workspace. Mostly you can see its pretty messy, thats the way I work. he admits Sometime