Joan Roberts Garcia
Oils, pastels, mixed media, and sculpture.


The work is displayed from the latest to earlier work. Recent objective paintings are primarily concerned with natural forms and how they merge and emerge in space. In the more abstract mixed media work I have been interested in how materials that are "known" to be different, actually have similar structures which appear when juxtaposed. They blend. There is something of tapestries in this effect. The 2-D paintings are observations of three dimensional forms in space, while the 3-D works are primarily about surface. I like this flip-flop, which was not intentional, but observed. The two ways of working are closely related- different ways of perception, perhaps of the same phenomena. This site is in progress; earlier examples of objective and abstract paintings are being added.


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Tears of Islam- Side Two

Tears of Islam- Side Two

Tears of Islam was my first two-sided piece.I had not planned it to be so, but could not keep from reaching around to the other side while working. Side Two is clearly about grief. What can be glimpsed through the shredded photographs in Side One, is laid bare here, and in your face. In actuality, it is merely a burlap bag hanging over the straw matting, glimpsed in the layers of Side One, and draped with velvet strips. I did not consciously create a piece about mourning, but know that is what this is.

84"H x 38"W


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