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Justin Garcia

U Feel Like Home

U Feel Like Home

$16,885.00 USD
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Feelings that remind us of home. I believe the best complement one can give or receive. The calming nature a person brings into an environment that sets a welcoming tone of peace and stillness. A process I had found started with creating that feeling for myself, the inner child that was looking for a safe, calm and nurturing environment within. A place to rest, heal, and grow. A place to make mistakes, to reflect, and forgive.

Artwork Details

Artist:
Justin Garcia
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Year Created:
2024
Style:
Justin Garcia builds the work around a rough-edged, wall-like support whose fractured perimeter and pitted surface carry the weight of age. The palette moves through peach, coral, sand, lilac, cobalt, teal, and magenta, with the brightest color reserved for the central lettering so the phrase reads as an emotional core rather than a slogan. Scrapes, drips, overpainting, and exposed underlayers create a palimpsest that places the piece in conversation with Neo-Expressionism and the material surface traditions of postwar assemblage, while the weathered ground ties directly to Garcia’s own series on aging walls and time. The composition is frontal and spare, holding the viewer at close range and turning the object into both image and artifact.
Tags:
mixed media,neo-expressionism,palimpsest,weathered surface,warm palette,text-based,memory,solace,wall structure,contemporary abstraction

About Justin Garcia

Justin Garcia, based in Houston, TX, creates original artwork available to collect on Art Emerge, an AI-powered marketplace for artists and collectors.

Key Facts

  • Location: Houston, TX

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)) .

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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