May 13 - June 10, 2022
From Goldmark Cultural Center:
“Rebuilt from the ground up The borderland saw me grow and its landscape continues to teach me about who I am. I am part of the desert space at the edge of the Mexico/US border that is marked by a dotted line. In my installations, I create desert landscapes that become abstract self-portraits of experiences from my childhood in Mexico to adulthood in the U.S. For this installation, I created 500 “nopal” ears (prickly pear) that are stripped down from the details that make up the actual nopal. The process becomes meditative through the repetition that results in a reconstructed prickly pear tree. The cactus-inspired sculptures refer to my Mexican cultural history and are made with terracotta clay. They are low-fired to cone 013 and stained with coffee to create a value scale of browns, oranges, and tan colors of the ground beneath. I pinched each piece to shape and I leave the memory of my fingertips as a way to express my presence as a MeXicana Americana rebuilt from the ground up. Artist website: www.karlamichellgarcia.com Instagram: @KarlaGarciaArt Photo credit: Melissa Gamez-Herrera Artist Bio Karla García is a Mexican-born, American-based artist that creates installations and sculptures with clay, found objects, and other symbolic materials to her Mexican heritage and migration. Her research-based artwork is a connecting point from her own history, ancient histories, and how these shape her identity, noting that “I hope that my work can be a catalyst for the public to experience a little bit of our human history in unexpected ways.” García is a Professor of Art at the Dallas College – Mountain View Campus. She completed an MFA degree in Ceramics and a Museum Education Certificate from the University of North Texas in 2019. García has exhibited in galleries in Dallas TX, Fort Worth, TX, and New York, NY. She was selected as a C3 artist at the Dallas, Museum of Art and has exhibited at the Nasher Sculpture Center Windows series. García was a resident at Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency in 2021 and is currently working on a Binational installation at the border of Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas.”
Closing: June 4, 2022 | 1–3 pm
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