Memories Afloat

The New York based artist’s Memories Afloat was produced in the summer of 2016 while she was residing in Granada, Spain and engages in that “always” conversation and the endless fascination García has had with history. Her work delves into what she calls “the politics of inclusion,” playing on her attraction with the first European settlements in the American continent (with its atrocities and beauties), the creation of a new race as part of its multifarious consequences, and the American dream with its many layers, aesthetics and inventions. These paintings on paper are multi-layered and presented in her traditional baroque style. Visually and spiritually lush, the series is an imbedded contradictory history of fleeing, rooting, freedom, enclosure, brutality and beauty.