Ricardo Garcia

Lives and works in Los Angeles, California, USA

Artist statement

​I birth and maintain my work on the principle that the world is a place of design by man that can corrupt or restore beauty. I am equally a participant extending my best and worst to my environment and fellow human beings. ​ I am a resident artist born and raised in Los Angeles. I paint the city in which I live and the people who inhabit it as they interact, weave between, and celebrate themselves and each other. ​ My work is versatile as my insatiable vision affords me a prolific artist reality. I create a new collection habitually as ideas constantly enter my mind as justifiable expressions with which I communicate. The paintings are visually abstract disfigurements and representational simultaneously as each construct exposes the reality to which we all contribute and from which we all evolve. Colorful and bold with various shapes and images, these paintings explore the beautiful and obscene. Specific elements of reality align as stagnating torsos of man and woman mutually endure in a corruptible world. ​ In my work, there is a conversation that is geographically and geometrically united by human anatomy and genealogy that travels through time and image. ​ My themes communicate a speech of love and anger relative to the tragedies and triumphs and all that exists in-between as a verifiable definition of humanity. I deconstruct to reconstruct. ​ I see my work connecting the cultures of academia and street as I relate the same honest reality and essence of the humanity of...

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