One of the founders of the Chicano art movement, Garcia was
actively involved in the civil rights movement and opposition to the
Vietnam War. He defines himself as a critical artist, which is,
simply, a concerned human being. Garcia's twenty five year body
of work speaks to issues of a shrinking global village, where ethnic
and national boundaries warp and shake under pressures of the New
World Order. Appropriation from mass culture subverts its
original intention through an active engagement, provocation and
call to action on the part of the viewer. Garcia uses borrowed
imagery, quoting and juxtaposition of image and text as a strategy
of critique and resistance.
born: French Camp, California
based: San Francisco.