Continuing his journey to explore social patterns in nature, Alfredo Garcia adds two brilliant additions in his "Abstract Elegance" Series. In accordance with his renowned trademark, Garcia expresses his responses to social interactions using evocative colors and assemblage. Through these works, the viewer gains a more pronounced view into Garcia's creative mind. Moreover, each of these three pieces offers a differing examination into the intricate social workings that occur in everyday reality.
In his piece,
"Loneliness", Garcia captures the sentiment of isolation and
abandonment. The centralized form in this work is a golden form imbued with maze-like
swirls of blues or oranges with jagged edges. This form is surrounded by a black,
a bleak space damaged by the energetic cracks that run throughout the surface.
These cracks are extremely irregular and forceful, enhancing the feeling of violence and
depression. This entire area is bordered by a rich olive green frame with jocund
swirls embedded into the thickness of the paint. This earthly richness and
serene whirly lines evoke a blissful connection with nature from which the
golden form is isolated-- trapped in a field of darkness and despair. 
Revealing a
lighter sentiment, Garcia represents the more gleeful aspects of social
interaction in his work, "Flash Generation". In this piece, Garcia
showcases four culturally mainstream scenes, providing a nostalgic tableau of
American social progression. The bottom two scenes carry a vintage feel, while
the top left image reveals a concert, a traditionally high-spirited social occasion.
Finally, the top right image depicts an ice blue cube encasing a diamond-like form,
representing the complexity and dimensionality of our progressing contemporary
world. These four images are surrounded by an earthy colored background. Using his trademark approach, Garcia fills this area with muted greens touched with areas of algae reds and dusty yellows. He also adds dynamic textures with wildly free brushstrokes entrenched in the paint. Here, Garcia indicates that throughout society's social history, we have always been intrinsically wired to nature as the backbones of our existence.
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