Robin Parker Garcia

Artist Statement As one viewer put it, my photographs emanate an earthy quality: "They're grounded and grounding. Thank you." As I photograph... light and shadow, I follow... Chance is my partner... Since I look at things differently, I strive to draw in the viewer and share a kind of "visual departure". I want the viewer to participate with their thoughts, memories, unconscious connections and have a mental dialogue with my artwork.
Process I was born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, and currently I live in Sun Lakes, Arizona. I began taking photographs at 15 after making my first pinhole camera.
At USC, I studied German Expressionist art and cinema and created an interdisciplinary major in psychology and art with an emphasis in photography. I wrote about pictorial logic versus linguistic logic in my thesis and created photographs that integrated a person's past and present identities or personas. My photography project involved a full length mirror, the person's favorite family photos made into slides and a projector.	Tony
Later, my photography went on a slightly different bend with the concepts of time, identity and relationship. I did a 2 week experiment during a 1986 family reunion in Puerto Rico where I photographed various rooms of my uncle's home- the patterns, textures, objects, family photos that they had surrounded themselves with-then threw the rolls into a pile. I would go back to the pile, not knowing what's already on the roll, and re-expose it by taking portraits of my family members. The results were both fascinating and disturbing.	The Double
I've worked on variations of this idea with time periods spanning 5 to 10 years in length. I come back to photographs without boundaries, photographs that take on a life of their own. I'm also fascinated by the layering of time. Chance is my partner.	Relativity
My recent work revolves around the ancient petroglyphs and rock carvings attributed to New Mexico's Anasazi and those created by the Tainos in Puerto Rico. Once again, the subject is the layering of time; in this instance, symbols and visual language from thousands of years ago.

Exhibitions

DECEMBER 15 - FEBRUARY 4, 2007
PERSPECTIVES
LOS ANGELES MUNICIPAL ART GALLERY

Exhibited artists include: Robin Parker Garcia, Srboohie Abajian, Lillian Abel, Marsia Alexander-Clarke,
Janine Autolitano, Beth Bachenheimer, Denice Bartels, Lynn Creighton, Beverly Crist, Jacqueline Dreager,
Carol Es, Carol Goldmark, Anne Mudge, Lis J. Schwitters, Olga Seem, Barbara Thomason,
Nancy Turner-Smith and Trine Wejp-Olsen.

Perspectives is part of The Feminist Art Project, a national exhibition program celebrating the Feminist Art Movement, bringing public attention to women artists’ significant impact on contemporary art practice, and guaranteeing their inclusion in the cultural record, past, present, and future.

June 2003
Robin Parker Garcia Exhibition
Art on the Square - Art, Music & Wine Festival
Hutchins Street Square Community Center
Lodi, California




August 1996
Robin Parker Garcia - One person exhibition
Bridge Gallery, City Hall
Los Angeles, California


December 1996
Robin Parker Garcia
70 Eureka Street
Sutter Creek, California

Publications

July 2004
Moondance: Celebrating Creative Women
Nancy Nield Buchwald, Art Director
Online Poetry/Art Magazine
www.moondance.org
Poetry Section/Pueblo Doce (Beat Poem)
"Mesa Cliffs & Acoma Pueblo"


June 2002
Poems Niederngasse
Pasquale Capocasa, editor
European Online Poetry/Art Magazine
www.niederngasse.com
"Carmel"
"La Mujer de Caguana Petroglyph"
"Pueblo Wall"
"Tree"


1991
Gay People, Sex and the Media
Dr. Michelle A. Wolf, Alfred P. Kielwasser, editors
"Self-fusion" by Robin Parker Garcia

Press Releases

November 20, 2006
PERSPECTIVES Exhibition
Robin Parker Garcia's artwork: Boulders, La Mujer de Caguana Petroglyph, Carmel, Tree
Scott Canty, Curator & Mary E. Oliver, Curator
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Dept of Cultural Affairs - cultureLA.org


June 5, 2003
Art Pick of the Week
"Carmel" by Robin Parker Garcia
Jackson Griffith, Arts Editor
Sacramento News & Review

Awards

2002
Viewpoint Award
Certificate of Achievement
Sacramento Valley Photographic Arts Center

Nominations

2001
2000 Women In Photography - A Millennium Project
WomenInPhotography.org
Robin Parker Garcia's multiple exposure; portraiture work

Education

BA Cum Laude, Interdisciplinary Studies: Psychology & Art
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Emphasis: Photography

Collections

Tracy D. Nasca, Beijing, CHINA

Michal Tingle, Washington, D.C., USA

Jill Robertson, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA

Doni Tamblyn, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Alfred Buono, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

Maria Rosario de Garcia, San Juan, PUERTO RICO

Oriana Parker Collection, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

BabyCenter.com Corporate Headquarters, San Francisco, California, USA

Keith & Suzanne Parker, Roseville, California, USA

Terry Garcia Collection, Los Angeles, California, USA

Sonia & Brian Parker, Fair Oaks, California, USA

Terri & Richard Nasca, Pollock Pines, California, USA