Joan Roberts Garcia
Oils, pastels, mixed media, and sculpture.

The work is displayed from the latest to earlier work. Recent objective paintings are primarily concerned with natural forms and how they merge and emerge in space. In the more abstract mixed media work I have been interested in how materials that are "known" to be different, actually have similar structures which appear when juxtaposed. They blend. There is something of tapestries in this effect. The 2-D paintings are observations of three dimensional forms in space, while the 3-D works are primarily about surface. I like this flip-flop, which was not intentional, but observed. The two ways of working are closely related- different ways of perception, perhaps of the same phenomena. This site is in progress; earlier examples of objective and abstract paintings are being added.


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Pattypan at Dusk

Pattypan at Dusk

Oil on prepared board. I worked on this piece at dusk- placing the white squash on a white table cloth. Due to the quality of light in the studio, neither of course looked white. This painting changes under bright lights: The colors look intense, almost garish- not pewterish, as the squash appeared to me, barely visible in the wanning light and as the painting itself appears under natural light, or with distance. It becomes three dimensional, more real, in waning light. I must have seen those colors- squinting in the dimly lit room. They must have been there, but were not easily distinguished. Or else they wouldn't blend as they do to create the effect that I saw when the light is the same as it was.

18"H x 24"W


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