Summary
There is a familiar kind of tone to the seemingly disparate imagery in Joe Ramiro Garcia's paintings. On the one hand, you might compare it to the experience of walking into a room -- perhaps a studio apartment in which all the things someone has collected over the years are laid out -- and taking it all in, evaluating it, and understanding it without having to see it as a big, carefully balanced design. The fact that a discarded candy wrapper on one side of the room
and a teddy bear on the other may not have any connection other than the fact that they are both in this room causes no acute distress.See the full content of this document
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Mbius-Strip Perspective
On the other hand, a Garcia painting is like a reflection of the noise that we hold in our heads at any given time, expressed as imagery.
Garcia's paintings are on view at LewAllen Galleries' downtown location in a show called Urban Reconnaissance. "As Americans, especially...See the full content of this document
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