Scherezade Garcia's new solo exhibition, Collective Portraits: The Map in My Skin, will open at IBIS Contemporary Art Gallery November 5th. The installation will include soft sculpture, large paintings, and works on paper.
Of this exhibition, Garcia writes, "As a Latinx contemporary artist, my work is concerned with creating narratives essential to understanding Las Americas and the American experience. My work intends to unveil the many ongoing cultural encounters that continuously shape and reshape how we view and perceive color in America. The majority of what I create is centered on the politics of inclusion. History plays a central role in my artistic practice of decoding and deconstructing visual narratives of power."
Garcia is a storyteller, the universal story of migration. Her work embodies the transitioning of people and places across history and cultures, and how they are perceived. She balances a duality of tragedy and beauty in both the subject and form. Figures from pop culture and religious iconography swim in watery blues and rhythmic wave patterns symbolic of the Atlantic Ocean. A monumental soft sculpture of a pink life jacket evokes both peril and hope with reflective irony. To view these works together will be an immersion into Scherezade Garcia's layered, exquisite and profound visual tales.
More info on the show available here: https://ibisartgallery.com/show/ibis-contemporary-art-gallery-scherezade-garcia-collective-portraits-the-map-in-my-skin.