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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Place

Place

"Place" is a mixed media piece that includes all kinds of photographic images, including those of temples, patterns reminiscent, to me, of Islamic architecture and personal snap-shots I had taken on vacation-on a plywood box. I was feeling displaced at the time this piece was created. After it was finished, while trying to figure out the intuitive inclusion of photos of ladders and steps,and the juxtapositioning of grand temple imagery with snap-shots of favorite moments and places, I saw the connection to the biblical story of Jacob, and realized the rightness of place I was in.

48"H x 43"W


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