Thursday, 3 April 2014
Thursday, 27 March 2014
Alfredo Garcia: A Visionary Inspired by Nature
PRESS RELEASE
As a visual poet, Garcia is
blessed with an affinity for looking at the world with artfully sensitive
eyes. He recognizes the innate beauty of
his environment, which he expresses through visual patterns and earthly blends of
color. These elements seem to map out the tone and nuances of his social
experiences and connections to his surroundings. As a result, his work is
essentially a perceptive symbolic response to the social interactions that
activate our everyday realities.
Alfredo Garcia is an
emerging visual artist based in California, specializing in abstract
assemblage. His work has received strong public acclaim as he has been featured
in the Artist Portfolio Magazine as well as the Peripheral ARTeries Art Review
Magazine on November 2013. Garcia's work is revered for his depiction of nature
and organic social interactions through an approach which he proudly refers to as "Abstract
Elegance".
As a visual poet, Garcia is
blessed with an affinity for looking at the world with artfully sensitive
eyes. He recognizes the innate beauty of
his environment, which he expresses through visual patterns and earthly blends of
color. These elements seem to map out the tone and nuances of his social
experiences and connections to his surroundings. As a result, his work is
essentially a perceptive symbolic response to the social interactions that
activate our everyday realities.
While many critics have
referred to Garcia's work as " highly moving", Garcia never intended
to create art with a specific purpose or goal in mind. Nevertheless, viewers regard
the exquisite subtleties of his
creations as a highly moving experience. As Garcia cautiously intertwines found
materials into his painterly, hand-crafted compositions, he is able to create a
sensuality and tangibility that emulates nature. Moreover, Garcia's awareness of
nature's character is distinctively shown through his use of color and imagery.
His trademark colors reveal an oxidized, yet muted quality, which creates a
tranquil and earthly feel. Also, his use
of intricately textured surfaces and organic shapes suggest a solidarity with
one's environment.
Garcia's art is deeply
inspired by the renowned film, "The Count of Monte Cristo". As the
film vividly captures the importance of perseverance, Garcia's embraces this
value as the driving force in his work. For this reason, each piece evokes a
riveting energy that is consistent with the vigor of man. Therefore, viewers
are encouraged to gaze beyond his murky colors to recognize the underlying beauty
of his uplifting lines and patterns.
You may visit Garcia's
artist blog at http://contemporaryart-galfredo.blogspot.ca/ to learn more about his individual
works. To purchase a work by Garcia and share his magnificent artistry in your
home, you may visit http://www.saatchiart.com/alfredogarcia . To contact the artist directly, you
may reach him via email at galfredo.art@gmail.com
Tuesday, 18 March 2014
Mapping Social Patterns in "Flash Generation" and "Loneliness"
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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