PILAR GARCÍA
Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts, UCM (Complutense University of Madrid).
Since 1990, she has worked as a teacher in the fields of Artistic Drawing, Technical Drawing, Archaeological Drawing, Printmaking, and Painting Techniques in Secondary Education Centers, Schools of Plastic Arts and Design, and Restoration Schools. She has simultaneously developed both her artistic and teaching careers, finding in the teaching process a constant space for reflection.
Her stylistic influences include Expressionism, Surrealism, Magic Realism, and, more specifically, artists such as Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Lucian Freud, Tetsuya Ishida, Jenny Saville, Peter Witkin, and Cindy Sherman, among others.
She experiments with various artistic techniques, and drawing—with its immediacy, restraint, and apparent simplicity, along with the rawness and honesty inherent in the medium—currently allows her to undertake a journey of emergence and introspection into the unconscious.
Her use of the pictorial language marks a progression in her expressive approach to the mental universe, presenting new communicative challenges. She employs traditional techniques while bringing a contemporary vision, within an aesthetic that carries expressionist and surrealist connotations.
She has exhibited in Cádiz, Ávila, and in several international galleries in Stockholm, and her work is held in private collections in Sweden and Denmark.
She has participated in artist residencies in Asturias, including the PACA project and the Decero Creativo space, also in Asturias, where she has developed graphic work in their professional printmaking studios.
Her work has been published in specialized art magazines from Manchester, including Beneath Your Beautiful Magazine, Sique Magazine, and 365 Art+.