Jul 27, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min · 12 segments
In this episode, Javier Proenza speaks with Los Angeles painter and sign painter Alex Gonzalez about the relationship between place, labor, and artistic practice. Drawing from a lifetime spent in the…
Alex GonzalezGuestJavier ProenzaHost
there's truth to the the villainous part because um based on their facts and what they know is they understand that the like mara salvatrucha runs the park and they run that money and so parks and recs gotta threaten a threat by them that if they remove yeah if they remove the the tables you know there would be some harm done to the family
welcome to what's my thesis i'm javier provenza and today my guest is alex gonzalez tell me a little bit about like your early background and all of that stuff like did you grow up in la
yes i was born and raised in the mccarthur park neighborhood so any neighborhood surrounding mccarthur park that's what where i spend most of my years and to this day actually
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there's truth to the the villainous part because um based on their facts and what they know is they understand that the like mara salvatrucha runs the park and they run that money and so parks and recs gotta threaten a threat by them that if they remove yeah if they remove the the tables you know there would be some harm done to the family
welcome to what's my thesis i'm javier provenza and today my guest is alex gonzalez tell me a little bit about like your early background and all of that stuff like did you grow up in la
yes i was born and raised in the mccarthur park neighborhood so any neighborhood surrounding mccarthur park that's what where i spend most of my years and to this day actually
