ABOUT THE WORK

The unorthodox painting style of Mark Andy Garcia acts as a visual biographical note – one that conveys an honest emotion that resulted from the circumstances he succumbed to. From his experiences as an overseas contract worker in Saudi Arabia to the passing of his father, Garcia has since offered his art to a spirit that pays homage to memories and recollections. Garcia’s artistic consciousness developed at an early age. In Painting Memories, Alice Guillermo describes Garcia’s art as one that “comes from the depths of his being.” The celebrated art critic further added that Garcia “weaves the whole course of life in his paintings, its childhood joys, its later sorrows, even its personal blows, but he is one artist who proffers a ready center of solace to all those wallowing in pain and sorrow.” Garcia won the Grand Prize at the 2007 Metrobank Art and Design Excellence. He received the CCP Thirteen Artists Award in 2015.