Edith Garcia
elemental shifts: innocence in the fire
August 5th - September 24th, 2016
Artist's Talk: Saturday, September 10th from 2-3pm
August 5th - September 24th, 2016
Opening Reception: Friday, August 5th, 6-9pm
Artist's Talk: Saturday, September 10th 2-3pm
Opening Reception: Friday, August 5th, 6-9pm
Artist's Talk: Saturday, September 10th 2-3pm
After living in the United Kingdom for over a decade, Edith Garcia is back in the Bay Area with her first solo exhibition, elemental shifts: innocence in the fire, at Transmission Gallery. The exhibit will feature dying embers, a new body of work influenced by the dynamic shift Garcia experiences in the cultural structures between the USA/UK. Ideas and practices long held stutter and fade only to ignite new dynamic structures of thought, culture and relationship. Striving to illuminate this shift in her recent sculptures and drawings, the dying embers works also expose the sinister moments and playful innocence of the modern imagination. Accompanying the recent work, Garcia will also present constant, same and forever, a collection of sculptures that explore ongoing themes of partnerships, friendship and everyday life.
Born in Los Angeles, California, Edith Garcia's work draws you into an alluring world of installation and sculpture. She focuses on the unique individual experiences throughout our lifetimes, the minimal occurrences that transpire each day, addressing contemporaneous issues specific to the human condition and grafts them into site-specific installations and objects. Her body of work has been exhibited throughout North America, Mexico and Italy, in spaces such as the Northern Clay Center, Minnesota, Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Mexico City and is included in the permanent Sculpture Garden of the Archie Bray Foundation, Montana.
Garcia is strongly engaged in the critical research of figurative sculpture with curatorial projects, publishing and creating works that reflect this passion. Garcia received her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MFA from the California College of Arts (and Crafts) and MPhil at the Royal College of Art in London working on research focusing around: The Absence and Presence of the Human Form in Ceramic Sculpture-Where is the Vanishing Point. And she currently has had first major publication Ceramics and the Human Figure released worldwide by A&C Black Visual Arts (Bloomsbury).
In 2014, Garcia was a Hothouse Guest Lecturer, for the Crafts Council, and exhibited as a shortlisted artist for AWARD at the British Ceramics Biennial, published Reporting on Residencies in Ceramic Review Magazine and was guest curator for Richard Slee: Revolution in the Rain at the Milton Keynes Arts Centre. And exhibited in Pulso, at the Kendall Galleries: Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University, MI USA.
Recently, Garcia was awarded the 2015-2016 Viola Frey Distinguished Visiting Professorship at the California College of the Arts, gaining access to the Viola Frey archive and working closely with the Artists' Legacy Foundation. As part of her Visiting Professorship she will be teaching Theory and hands on courses at CCA in the Fall 2015 and Spring 2016.
Garcia is strongly engaged in the critical research of figurative sculpture with curatorial projects, publishing and creating works that reflect this passion. Garcia received her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MFA from the California College of Arts (and Crafts) and MPhil at the Royal College of Art in London working on research focusing around: The Absence and Presence of the Human Form in Ceramic Sculpture-Where is the Vanishing Point. And she currently has had first major publication Ceramics and the Human Figure released worldwide by A&C Black Visual Arts (Bloomsbury).
In 2014, Garcia was a Hothouse Guest Lecturer, for the Crafts Council, and exhibited as a shortlisted artist for AWARD at the British Ceramics Biennial, published Reporting on Residencies in Ceramic Review Magazine and was guest curator for Richard Slee: Revolution in the Rain at the Milton Keynes Arts Centre. And exhibited in Pulso, at the Kendall Galleries: Kendall College of Art and Design of Ferris State University, MI USA.
Recently, Garcia was awarded the 2015-2016 Viola Frey Distinguished Visiting Professorship at the California College of the Arts, gaining access to the Viola Frey archive and working closely with the Artists' Legacy Foundation. As part of her Visiting Professorship she will be teaching Theory and hands on courses at CCA in the Fall 2015 and Spring 2016.
