Donna Garcia

1st Place

Donna Garcia

Swarm | 2017 Archival Pigment Photographic Print | 35 x 2 x 27 in NFS

Donna Garcia donna@donnagarcia.com donnagarcia.com

About

Donna Garcia is lens-based artist whose work illustrates a semiotic dislocation that has been organically reconstructed in a way that gives her subjects a voice in the present moment; something they did not have in the past. Her images rise above what they actually are and become empathic recreations in a fine art narrative. She often utilizes self-portraiture with motion to provide an indication of the other in her work; a surplus threat to the perpetuity of our modern day grand narratives in defining elements like gender and race. She has an MFA in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design. Her work has been exhibited and published internationally and she is a 2019 nominee of reGENERATION 4: The Challenges of Photography and the Museum of Tomorrow, Emerging Artists to Watch.

Curator Review Swarm

Suspended in movement within the constraints of the image itself, ’Swarm’ reveals the raw inner qualities of its subject. The soft, subdued edges and color of the figure, contrasts against the assertively abstract and specious, tentacle-like filaments, giving the work a sense of multi-layered meaning. This singular piece communicates in a brilliantly distilled manner and boldly configures the internal, externally. -E.E. Jacks Georgia United States of America