Art & Curator in Dialogue: i thought i saw you yesterday
Join artist Joe Ramiro Garcia and curator hazel batrezchavez in conversation exploring memory, and ancestral knowledge as part of the exhibit programming for i thought i saw you yesterday.
Tue Dec 1st 12:30-1:30pm // Wells Fargo Auditorium in the Roy E. Disney Performing Arts Center at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 4th St. SW Albuquerque, NM 87120
About the artist: Joe Ramiro Garcia is an Art Institute of Chicago–educated artist who moved to Santa Fe from his native Houston in 1987. In his paintings, he creates an image or pattern on paper that’s soaked in gum arabic and water, next the paper plate is charged with oil paint and then hand pressed onto a painting surface. It’s a transfer method similar to those used by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, and Nancy Spero—but also vastly different, because Garcia doesn’t silkscreen, monoprint, or etch. The end results are oil paintings that Garcia calls “open narratives” due to layered imagery. Garcia, who is represented by Blue Gallery in Kansas City, has recently had several solo exhibitions at Santa Fe’s LewAllen Galleries.
