Experience Imaginative Collage Work at Powerful New Exhibition at the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County

Posted by: Linnea Bailey

February 29, 2024

In her first solo exhibition, Diana Garcia’s ‘Glue – Paper – Scissors’ transforms rescued print images into works of highly original, layered art

LAKE WORTH BEACH, FL —A collection of intricate layered collage pieces will soon be showcased in a notable art exhibition in downtown Lake Worth Beach.

The exhibition Diana Garcia : Glue – Paper – Scissors will take place at the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County’s Solo Gallery from March 15 through May 4. Free and open to the public, hours are Tuesday through Saturday from noon to 5 p.m.

Palm Springs-based professional artist Diana Garcia has long been experimenting with paper, a flexible yet rigid material that serves as her medium of communication. She transforms images rescued from books and magazines, often forgotten on shelves, and reuses paper as an act of love for the planet.

Glue, paper, and scissors are the three essential elements in her work. They have given life to memories, thoughts, and places that captivate her and allow her to imagine what she has yet to experience. Shape, texture, and proportion are vital to her composition process. Humans are always implicit in Garcia’s work, but they are not always the protagonist.

“Diana Garcia’s work is wonderfully meticulous,” said Jessica Ransom, the Cultural Council’s director of artist services, who curated the exhibition. “She has an innate understanding of dimension and size, and she understands how to find disparate imagery and put it together in a cohesive way.”

Originally from Bogotá, Colombia, Garcia is an interior architect, illustrator and chef who has gained inspiration from her time living in Chihuahua, Mexico — which inspired her use of color throughout her work — and London in the United Kingdom, where she studied graphic design and fell in love with the fashion and movement of the city.

Her work is completely analog, and said she loves the touch and aroma of working with old magazines and superimposing pieces to represent different realities. This exhibition features 23 collages, and includes topics such as food, people and places, she said.

“Every time I travel, I try to go to secondhand bookstore to conduct research,” Garcia said. “I’ll spend hours reading about a place and looking for imagery that matches my vision for a piece.”

Selected through a highly competitive application process, Garcia is one of six Palm Beach County-based professional artists whose work was chosen by a committee for one of the Cultural Council’s coveted Solo Gallery exhibition spots. All the artists chosen for the 2023-2024 season are women.

This is Garcia’s first solo exhibition; her work was recently seen in the Cultural Council’s Contemporary Art of the Latin American Diaspora exhibition in Fall 2022.

Diana Garcia : Glue – Paper – Scissors will run from March 15 through May 4 at the Cultural Council’s headquarters in Lake Worth Beach. Exhibition hours are Tuesday through Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. Visit palmbeachculture.com for more information or to register for the opening artist reception on Thursday, March 14, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.; to RSVP, visit palmbeachculture.com/garcia. To see more of her work, visit www.dianalogcollageartist.com or find her on Instagram at @dianalog_collage_artist.

About the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County
The Cultural Council for Palm Beach County is the official support agency for arts and culture in The Palm Beaches, Florida’s Cultural Capital®. Headquartered in the historic Robert M. Montgomery, Jr. building in Downtown Lake Worth Beach, the Council presents exciting year-round exhibitions and performances featuring artists who live or work in Palm Beach County. The Council features spectacular work by Palm Beach County-based professional artisans in its Roe Green Uniquely Palm Beach Store and offers complimentary resources for visitors in its Jean S. and Frederic A. Sharf Visitor Information Center. The Council is open to the public Tuesdays through Saturdays from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. For more information and a comprehensive calendar of cultural events in The Palm Beaches, visit palmbeachculture.com.

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