Joe Ramiro Garcia
Statement:
My painting process is a mix of traditional brush and palette knife application with a postmodern use of printmaking transfer skills.
Not unlike Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Sigmar Polke, Philip Taaffe, Nancy Spero, and others, I work in layers.
Layers of visual pattern and imagery create what I call an open narrative.
This open narrative allows the viewer personal, emotional and possibly psychological interpretations of my work.
My Imagery draws from common everyday life to commercial or popular consumer culture.
Painting is an evolved art term now incorporating mixed media and collage.
The artists I mentioned earlier epitomize this especially when it comes to the printmaking aspect of their work.
Most of them used silkscreen, Taaffe and Spero actually used monoprint and etching on paper later to be collaged on to the painting surface.
My work is different here.
I developed a way of using a gum arabic transfer method that allows me to use the same oil and alkyd paint mixture I paint with and avoid using inks or other print mediums.
The method is simple, a paper is prepared with imagery or pattern then soaked in gum arabic and water creating a resist where the oil paint collects in the imagery and avoids the negative space.
When this is ready I simply press the oiled paper onto the painting surface using hand pressure to transfer the imagery.
After this is done it is no different than normal oil painting. I can smear it, embellish it with brush or wait for it to dry and paint over it.
This is what I call paint layers. The oil and alkyd medium is the same from the bottom layer to the last top painted layer. That is why I describe my work as "Painting" and not mixed media.
Résumé:
Personal
Born is Houston, Texas on December 24, 1966
Professional
2004,2005, &2008. Taught Advanced Painting at the Institute for American Indian Arts College
2005 Visiting Artist, University of Tennessee. At Chattanooga, Chattanooga,TN
2006 Visiting Artist, Georgia O’Keefe Museum, Summer Youth Program, Santa Fe, NM
Education
1985-1986 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1982-1985 High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Houston, TX
Awards
2005 Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York City, NY - Grant Award Winner
2003 THE SHOW ,Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM - Honorable Merit jurors: Susan Rothenberg,Terezita Romo, and Charles Stainback
1990 SELECTIONS ' 90, College of Santa Fe Fine Arts Gallery, Santa Fe, NM - Award of Distinction - jurors: Jesus Bautista Morales and Juane Quick to See Smith
1985 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL - Renewable Scholarship
1984 National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, Washington, D.C. - Honorable Merit
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 David Richard Gallery, NY
2019 Pictures, Things and Living Arrangements, Blue Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2016 Optimist, LewAllen Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2014 Transference, LewAllen Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2012 Look into the Sun, LewAllen Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2012 But Seriously_, Blue Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2010 Urban Reconnaissance, LewAllen Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2008 Karaoke, LewAllen Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2007 Childish Things, Pan American Art Projects, Dallas, TX
2006 True Grit, LewAllen Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2005 The Way It Is, Davis & Cline Galleries, Ashland, OR
2005 PAINTINGS & MONOTYPES, Cress Gallery, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN
2005 New Paintings, Pan American Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
2004 Drawn From Life, LewAllen Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2004 Between The Lines, Mainsite Contemporary Art, Norman, OK
2002 Room To Move, Handsel Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 12 New Mexico Artists to Know, Southwest Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2020 Now Director's Cut, Blue Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2019 New Ancient, Gallery Fritz, Santa Fe, NM
2018 Selections VIII:, Cress Gallery -The University Of Tennessee in Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN
2013 Visualizing A Presence, Heimbold Visual Arts Center, Bronxville, NY
2009 summer group exhibition, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2009 Conversations, Lewallen Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2008 Luis Jimenez, Joe Ramiro Garcia, and Narcisco Arguelles, Untitled Art Space, Oklahoma City, OK
2007 Art Miami, Pan American Art Projects, Miami, FL
2006 Diptychs, Lewallen Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2005 Chicago Contemporary & Classic, LewAllen Contemporary, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
2005 Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2005 Interpreting the Sacred, Owings Dewey North, Santa Fe, NM
2005 BLOC BUSTA, Lewallen Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2004 Modes and Methods, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX
2004 Outpost, No Man's Land Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2003 Winter Show, Fresh Art Gallery, Denver, CO
2003 Print Show Invitational, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, NM
2003 Print Show Invitational, Paul Mesaros Gallery, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
2003 The Show, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2003 Art In Embassies Program, Exhibition for the United States Chief of Mission to Cuba, Havana, Cuba
2003 Peace Show, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2002 First Impressions and the Comic Book, El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe, NM
2002 Western States Small Works, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA
2002 Rocky Mountain Biennial 2002, Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO
2001 Site Unseen, James Kelly Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
2000 The American Landscape, A Contemporary Perspective, MainSite Contemporary Art, Norman, OK
1998 Monotype Exhibition, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1998 Master Printer Invitational, Brian Marki Gallery, Portland, OR
1990 Selections ‘90, College of Santa Fe Fine Arts Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1984 Surfaces III - Man Made Surfaces, Art League of Houston, Houston, TX
Collections
Missouri Bank, Kansas City, MO
Enturia Inc, Kansas City, MO
The Fox Company, PA
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN
Pamela Grier, American Actress
Lectures & Interviews
2008 Internet Interview, September broadcast, ArtworksMagazine.Com, Carmel, CA
2008 Internet Interview, June broadcast, Oklatravelnet.Com, Oklahoma City, OK
2008 Slide Lecture, Untitled ArtSpace, Oklahoma City, OK
2006 Slide Lecture, Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM
2006 Dialogue 360, College of Santa Fe., Santa Fe, NM
2005 Slide Lecture & Dialogue with Pat Harris, Santa Fe Art Inst., Santa Fe, NM
2005 Slide Lecture, University of Tenn. At Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN
2004 A Dialogue Among Peers, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2003 Slide Lecture, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2003 Slide Lecture, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM
2002 Television Interview, Bump T. V., Toronto, Canada
2000 Radio Interview,KVRX University of Texas, Austin ,TX
Selected Publications
2021 New American Paintings, Boston, MA
2020 The Magazine, Santa Fe, NM
2008 Artworks Magazine, fall issue, Carmel,CA
2008 Catalogue - Selected Works,Untitled Art Space, Oklahoma City, OK
2006 100 Artist Of The Southwest book by Douglas Bullis
2005 Bloc - Busta catalogue, Santa Fe, NM
2005 Chattanooga Times, Chattanooga, TN
2005 Selections ' 90", College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM - June 2005
2004 Catalogue for Exhibition for the United States Chief of Mission to Cuba
2000 New Mexico Millennium Collection Book, Tesuque, NM
1991 Hotwired Magazine, San Francisco, CA Retina - Featured Artist - June 1991 2008 Artworks Magazine, fall issue, Carmel,CA
2008 Catalogue - Selected Works,Untitled Art Space, Oklahoma City, OK
2006 100 Artist Of The Southwest book by Douglas Bullis
2005 Bloc - Busta catalogue, Santa Fe, NM
2005 Chattanooga Times, Chattanooga, TN
2005 Selections ' 90", College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM - June 2005
2004 Catalogue for Exhibition for the United States Chief of Mission to Cuba
2000 New Mexico Millennium Collection Book, Tesuque, NM
1991 Hotwired Magazine, San Francisco, CA Retina - Featured Artist - June 1991