Waiting Station to the Rabbit Hole

About Justin Garcia

Justin Garcia, Born Houstonian, is influenced by the timeless connection between art and science studied by DaVinci. His lifelong fascination with aging and how change occurs over time led him to undergo a deep self-psychoanalysis through the abstraction of his first seven series spanning over a decade. All of Garcia’s earlier works are pieces of a larger puzzle. To analyze, document, and assemble this puzzle, he took two years away from the art scene, several months of which he spent isolated in central Mexico. There, he mapped and constructed a theoretical model that captures the intersection of experience, awareness, and control across time and subject matter (Humanity’s Sustainable Infinite (HSI)) . In late 2015, he announced the completion and publication of his first book, One Ton Goldfish: In Search of the Tangible Dream , a retrospective of his seven series in which Garcia’s pers...

Artist Statement

Art is an expression of the mind’s endless creativity, a doorway to everything in which humans are en-gaged. My work is the continuous result of studying a single question: Why ? My work focuses on the complexity of time and the human perception of it through the simplicity of aging walls as architectural structures representing reality. It is precisely the walls all around us that bring a sense of solace when confronting concepts of time and its infinite effect. As every surface, from that of the smallest pebble to the largest planet, is a wall, and every wall is a surface subjected to time....

Selected Highlights

• 2020 Introduction, Debord International Fine Art and Southwest Gallery, Dallas, TX
• 2017 Time Machine: Through the Walls of a Time Traveler, Nicole Longnecker Gallery, Houston,
• 2016 Walls of Time: Down the Rabbit Hole and Back, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, TX
• STOP – listen and collaborate!, Pop-Up Museum in conjunction with The History of Houston’s
• 2015 A Night at the Edmont, Grant Gordon Foundation Fundraiser, Edmont, Houston, TX

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