Roswell, N.M. United States
Eric J. Garcia blends history, contemporary themes and a graphic style to create politically charged art that reaches beyond aesthetics. Using sculpture, mixed media installations, murals, printmaking and his controversial political cartoons, he aims to challenge his viewers to question sources of power and the whitewashing of history. After receiving his BFA with a minor in Chicano studies from the University of New Mexico, Eric Garcia went on to complete his MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a core member of the printmaking collective, Instituto Gráfico de Chicago, a thriving member of the emerging Veteran Art Movement, and is a dedicated teaching artist. Garcia has exhibited nationally and his work can be found in the collections of the National Museum of Mexican Art, the National Hispanic Cultural Center, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Other Media
El Machete Illustrated
at the Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY) inconjuction with the No Misery Can Tell, No Word of Farewell exhibition December 3, 2022 – March 18, 2023 Last Fall I was invited to the…
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El Machete Illustrated
El Machete Illustrated
The latest article in Southwest Contemporary magazine features two Justseed members Chip Thomas and Eric J Garcia, as they use their creative process to bring awareness to the U.S. citizens…
Check out the illustration series I created for Hyperallergic in conjunction with my on going “alien” theme and pigment experiments with “tinta de tuna“. Click here
Last month I was honored to go support and learn from the Downwinders Consortium at the Trinity Site of White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico. Twice a year…
I created a special poster for my solo exhibition Space Invaders at the Roswell Museum, in Roswell, New Mexico. The Roswell Museum has a very unique and very problematic collection…
Solo exhibition by Eric J. Garcia In 1492, the indigenous peoples of what is now known as the Bahamas made a huge discovery: three alien ships had been spotted off…
“The 4 Evils” print will be in the exhibition Revolution, Resistance, and Activism, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Printed for the Poor People’s Campaign Print Portfolio,…
I was very fortunate to be one of the five artists chosen for this year’s Tipping Points project at the Tamarind Institute, sponsored by the City of Albuquerque’s Public Art…
#FreeThemAll Fronteristxs is a collective of artists in New Mexico working to end migrant detention and abolish the prison industrial complex. They imagine and fight for a world of liberation…
The printed Archive Codex was a collaborative project to get visuals and information out of the University of Minnesota’s Chicano/Latino archive and into the hands of the community. The idea of…