Alfredo Gonzalez (Dofre) is an Oxnard-based artist with graffiti roots, merging traditional oil painting with bold, deconstructed portraiture. His work fuses precision with raw distortion, exploring themes of identity, impermanence, and transformation. Through layered textures and deliberate erasure, his portraits blur the line between presence and decay, creation and loss.
His work has been exhibited in Los Angeles and across the East Coast, with pieces held in private collections worldwide. Combining aerosol and oil, he builds and breaks down form, creating figures that shift between realism and abstraction. Each piece carries a sense of movement—disrupting realism to cement his voice in contemporary portraiture.
press
‘The Recorder’ Article, “Painter preserves working-class roots while producing fine art”, 2023
exhibitions
2024 – The Ampersand Show/Known Gallery at Complexcon, Las Vegas, NV
2023 – Solo Exhibition, Grand Bohemian Gallery, Savannah, GA
2023 – Solo Exhibition, Grand Bohemian Gallery, St. Augustine, FL
2023 – Group Exhibition, Grand Bohemian Gallery, Greenville, SC
2023 – Group Exhibition, Grand Bohemian Gallery, Asheville, NC
2023 – Group Exhibition, Grand Bohemian Gallery, Charleston, SC
2023 – Group Exhibition, Grand Bohemian Gallery, Mountain Brook, AL
2023 – Icons Group Exhibition, Exhibit A Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023 – The Next Original Award, Grand Bohemian Gallery, Savannah, GA
2022 – La Bulla Group Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
2022 – El Velorio Group Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
2021 – El Velorio, Pico Rivera, CA
2021 – Viva Oxnard Group Collaboration, Oxnard, CA
2021 – Academy of Art Spring Art Show, San Francisco, CA
2018 – Institution Ale Brewery Lock Down Art Show, Camarillo, CA
awards
Finalist, ‘The Next Original’, The Kessler Collection, 2022