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

The work is displayed from the latest to earlier. I am most interested in the physical properties embodied within the works- whether they are painted surfaces, or a combination of diverse materials. Recent objective oil paintings focus on forms and how they merge and emerge in space. Many of these paintings were made in waning light. Their appearance becomes most alive in that same light- that intrigues me. 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.