scherezade garcia
Visual artist/Intellectual/
Interdisciplinarian/Exploratory/
Curious/Energertic
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Artists statement
My work inhabits a baroque universe of different worlds of aesthetics planes. Through my art works, I become a storyteller. My visual narratives generate energy, alluding to the emotional physicality of art making; and there is the urgency of a concept to keep alive. The physical and emotional experience of drawing is essential to my art making process. Through my drawings, I create beauty with lines. The process of drawing gives rise to visual codes which lead me to spontaneous compositions and intriguing meanings at once. I work in drawing, painting, installations, artists’ books, and video animation. Through these different media, I create contemporary allegories of history, colonization, and politics.
My fascination with the social human experience since the “discovery” of America and its multifarious results is an endless source of inspiration and an essential part of my discourse. This fascination has led me to such themes as the causes and consequences of migration, the mestizo and barroquism as consequences of colonization, the inversion of traditional beliefs of salvation, and the questioning of religious and social uses of the notion of paradise. I create my allegorical narratives by appropriating and transforming symbols and objects that have included life jackets, inner tubes, suitcases, mattresses, tents, umbrellas, religious icons, and newspapers clippings.
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- "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes" Marcel Proust
- Gabby is turning sixteen today!!! I just can not believe it!!!eccentric and talented as ever!!!I feel so lucky!!! Gabby esta cumpliendo 16 años hoy!!!es que no lo puedo ni creer!!!!eccentrica y talentosa como siempre!!!!me siento tan agradecida con el encanto de mi Gabba!!!
- Where is spring?
- Dear friends, If you happen to be in the Garden State...I would love if you can join me and my colleagues Cybil Vladimir and Regine Roumaurie for The Art Quake panel discussion tomorrow Thursday. Thanks to Tatiana Flores,Academic Director Institute of Women and Art for the invitation! The panel will take place from 4:30 to 6:00 PM at the Center for Latino Arts and Culture (CLAC), Rutgers University, 122 College Ave., New Brunswick, NJ 0890 Hope to see you there!!!! One thousand and One greetings!!! Scherezade
- I am in tears...get rid of the freaking guns!!!!!!!!!!we canNOT support this cowboy mentality!!! it is killing our children!! My God, my thoughts and prayers are with those victims in CT
- Voted!!!!!!!yes!!!!!!!!!!
- some signs of light in Lowe Manhattan!!!!yeah!!!!!!
- People!!!!!thank you so much for such nice birthday wishes!!! Gente querida!!!!Gracias por tan lindos mensajes de cumpleaños!!!!!gracias, gracias, gracias!!!
- Triste con la muerte a destiempo del artista Pablo Barinas... que descanse en paz.
- Enjoying my wonderful students@ Parsons!!!love them!
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- Whassup this week blog "This Side of Paradise"Art Observer blog "This Side of Paradise"
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"Theories of Freedom" Long Island University and City College Art Gallery
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- Jan 19, 11
It is always wonderfully complex to go back to Altos de Chavon.
www.altosdechavon.org
It makes me happy and sad. It makes me tired and excited all at once!! overwhelming!!
It is written in stone, my love for the school and my desire to contribute to it's legacy.
This time, I went to impart a fashion illustration drawing class.
Drawing is an essential skill in the language of art and design. Part of my goal is to guide my student toward the magic of mark making, and the creation of their own visual codes. In the case of fashion drawing, the idea is to represent the design and the spirit of it. My biggest reward is to witness my student's development, especially when I see them searching to find the balance between the concept, the emotions, and the physicality of drawing. - Jan 04, 11
Dear all,
I hope you can join us for this special project, which honors Haiti’s history in artistic leadership, and addresses the impact of the January 12, 2010 earthquake on the nation’s visual art community. See the attached press release for more info!!
AQ ART QUAKE
A print portfolio project by:
Terry Boddie
Vladimir Cybil Charlier
Aurora De Armendi
Marlie Decopain RFA Renaissance Fine Arts
Scherezade Garcia 2075 Adam Clayton Powell Jr /124th St.
Klode Garoute Harlem, N.Y. (212. 866-1660)
Rejin Leys
Cathy Mooses Reception: January 12th, 2011, 6PM
Juana Valdes An’ Pale-Artist Talk: January 15th, 2011, 4PM
Didier William
Proceeds will support artists and artisans in Haiti who were adversely impacted by the earthquake.
Co-sponsored by Haiti Cultural Exchange. Click here to see more info - Nov 29, 10
The New Wave/La Nueva Ola
Since 2005, The Latino Art Now! Conference has become a important forum for artists, art professionals, educators, scholars, critics, collectors, and art dealers. Through dialogue in panels, and the presentation of academic scholarship, the conference examines the contemporary state of Latino art in the United States and the world. We had the opportunity of presenting The Dominican York Proyecto GRAFICA at the conference!! It was a great opportunity and wonderful experience!!! to share, receive feedback from people we highly respect, to mingle with artists friends. We are so grateful!! in the photos Eduardo Diaz (Smithsonian Latino Center), E. Carmen Ramos (Smithsonian Latino Center), Pepe Coronado (Coronado Studios), Iliana Emilia(artist), myself, Freddy (artist), and Fernando Salicruz (Taller Boricua) - Nov 08, 10This printmaking project was born by the urge to document the
graphic work of artists of Dominican descent living, and working in
New York.
These group of artists, working collectively have developed not only
a historical printmaking portfolio,but also a contemporary visual
comment on the diverse migration experience of the Dominican
community.There is a diversity of voices aesthetically and in the
variety techniques, from etching, lithograph,block, mixed media to
silkscreen.
The Dominican York Proyecto GRAFICA is a printmaking collective of
twelve artists of Dominican
descent, who live and work in and around New York City.
Headed by Pepe Coronado, the artists of the collective are: Carlos
Almonte, Pepe Coronado,
Rene De Los Santos, iliana emilia Garcia, Reynaldo Garcia Pantaleon,
Scherezade Garcia, Alex Guerrero,
Luanda Lozano, Miguel Luciano, Chiqui Mendoza, Moses Ros-Suarez, and
Rider Urena.
Our first project is a print portfolio of twelve images in an
edition of twenty-five called ”MANIFESTACIONES”,
a collection of imagery depicting cultural markers in the form of
customs, beliefs, icons and “mañas”
Dominicanas (Dominican idiosincracies)
The mission of the Dominican York Proyecto GRAFICA is:
-to advance the state of contemporary Dominican American graphic
arts through a rich and varied
collaboration.
-to engage in research and development of innovative and
contemporary graphic ideas and techniques.
-to create prints using a variety of techniques from traditional to
the newest, safest and cleanest
processes of today.
-to lead in creating new venues for exchange of ideas and cultures
-to broaden the public’s knowledge of modern Dominican culture
through exhibitions, lectures, and
workshops.
-to document and manifest the graphic tradition in the Dominican
Republic by creating an entity
solely focused in its
history and development
-to create captivating pieces of art
scherezade garcia - Jun 16, 08
A little movie demonstrating the installation in action. This is exactly what I envisioned a piece moving, blending with the landscape but still provocative to the site. Oh..Can you hear the sounds of nature?? I just enjoy that so much!
- Jun 16, 08
Outdoor installation on the sloping lawn below Glyndor Gallery presents a curving wall of photography and drawings fluttering in the breeze, blending with the landscape.
Images printed on waterproof fabric mounted on a clear plexiglass structure. 32 feet long x 8 feet high. 2008
I am inspired by the everyday saga and the painterly effect I see everywhere, in my contradictory tradition..I approach drawings, photos , paintings as very three dimensional mediums because the feelings, memories that provoke, the stories that are told have many dimensions ,that's why the Green Wall is a painting and a sculpture that moves and changes as life and the landscape that serves as it background
The process of giving life to idea takes time, takes changes. This piece was inspired by the diversity found in nature, the human presence and the human manipulation, the greens and the blues of the Wave Hill landscape and the blending of it all. The photos were taken in different locations in New York and Dominican Republic. The New York images are places I pass by when traveling to schools all over Brooklyn in my teaching-artist residencies with Studio in a School.
My projects are family productions..William understands when I speak with my gestures and hands..and we are a good team. My sister and the girls also get assignments so my ideas can have a happy ending.
The Green Wall - Jun 16, 08
After many months of testing out ideas, and pulling all the pieces together. It's Done! Not to mention having to repair the piece after it was damaged in a freak wind storm. Although most of the piece survived unscathed.
I put together a slide showing some of the process involved in making my installation "The Green Wall" at Wave Hill a reality. The piece will be on display from June 15th till September. A big Thank you! to my husband William and also Mike Childs . - May 16, 08
Here we are again!! Another project!!!!
This a sculpture-moving painting work commissioned by Wave Hill. Testing out the technical parts of the sculpture in my backyard. Working with a new material (plexiglass) and really enjoying the process. It's still very much a work in process, in my little garden in Brooklyn..of course it is raining and I am loving the light on this rainy morning. The final piece will be ready to show at the Wave Hills Gardens from June 11-Sept1,2008. I will post more images from the installation of the piece and of course the images when it is finished.
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