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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Delicate Debris

Delicate Debris

Delicate Debris began with a plastercast of the upper part of my torso,head and arm. When I hung the cast on the wall, I then felt compelled to destroy it, and cut a hole in the hanging hand. This was in rememberance of a golden avocado pit once held. The piece was completed with paper and bits of ornate fabric, and other once valuable bits and pieces. My body, partially detroyed, together with these other materials taken out of their normal contexts, their defining edges also destroyed,reminded me of the debris one finds on the beach, of items once prized for other uses, but still beautiful. The partial plexiglass on the upper left corner symbolizes the former value.

48"H x 36"W


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