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The focus of all my work is "Form". And my love is color. The objective paintings are primarily concerned with natural forms and the way they merge and emerge in space, and the glow of color that they are envoloped in. The more abstract mixed media work done thus far deals with the way forms interact and appear to dissolve into and replace one another. The tapestry like effect that results from disintegrating layers,laid side by side, has consistently drawn my attention. Much of this mixed media work was in black and white, in the past, as my focus was on structural similarities between otherwise different substances-structure can best be examined in black and white. Also Black white ochres and dark reds are traditional, some would call "primitive" colors, symbolic of and one with the processes and places from which they come- like straw, clay, blood and cinders. All of the work is inspired by nature. This site is in progress; earlier examples of objective and abstract paintings are being added.
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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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