Ana María Garcés R.

Chilean artist Ana María Garcés R. combines carefully rendered figuration with expressive, painterly marks. She creates serene atmospheres on canvas, using multiple media to capture the contrast between texture and delicacy. Her works thus convey contemplation and quietude as diverse and complex entities. Ethereal, transparent figures almost float on the surfaces of Garcés R.’s paintings, seemingly lost in their own internal dialogues. Text, waves of color or lightly rendered draperies create the introspective environment that the figures inhabit, while geometric shapes and subtle lines give the paintings a vague, architectural sense of place.

Garcés R. has been observing the figure and drawing from life for over a decade. Her art-making process organically emphasizes the importance of perceiving and reflecting on the world’s physical, emotional and cultural dimensions. Her paintings simultaneously convey the body’s natural beauty, its internal depth, and its role as a social communicant. Garcés R., who has a background in textile design as well as in fine art, lives and works in Lo Barnechea, Santiago, Chile.