Transmission Gallery is pleased to announce elemental shifts: innocence in the fire, featuring the work of Edith Garcia, August 5th through September 24th.
Opening Reception: Friday, August 5th from 6-9 pm
Artist’s Talk: Saturday, September 10th from 2-3 pm
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 in Oakland. 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 and the 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.
There will be an opening reception for the artist on Friday, August 5th from 6-9pm in conjunction with the Oakland Art Murmur First Friday Art Walk. Also, Garcia will speak about her work and experiences as an artist at the Artist’s Talk will be September 10th from 2-3 pm.
Born in Los Angeles, California, Edith Garcia offers 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. Her first major publication, Ceramics and the Human Figure, was recently released worldwide by A&C Black Visual Arts (Bloomsbury).
