Joe Ramiro Garcia

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.

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