BIOGRAPHY
For more info see: www.vanessagarcia.org and www.thekrane.com
Vanessa Garcia is a writer and visual artist working in various mediums. She writes for The Miami Herald, is a playwright and is currently working on a book of short stories and a new series of paintings, among other projects.
Garcia, an ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâ¦Ã¢â¬ÅAmerican-born Cuban,ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâàis currently living in her native Miami, after seven years of living and working in New York City. Her writing traverses the thematic scope of exile and Diaspora, as well music, art, urban development and the growth of the American city.
Similarly, her paintings, which meet somewhere between abstraction and figuration, are also about the place where past and present meet. Like the cities she has lived, worked, and traveled through, her visual art is both nostalgic and innovative. From portraits of Celia Cruz to paintings of mythical winged creatures and harlequins; from self portraits to photographs and mixed-media collage - the work exudes memory and desire, present and past, translating all of those layers into a visual language.
