SERIES

SERIES is an ongoing project by Erin D. Garcia that explores repetition and variation through lines and color.

My favorite way to make work is just to paint and see what happens. An idea will slowly form, and I'll try to make it solid by repeating it a few times. If I can repeat it and create variations, then I understand the idea enough, and that's where this project came from.

Each piece is a record of drifting lines of notes that converge from everyday dissonance into moments of harmony.

BIO

Erin D. Garcia was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1979, and has lived and worked in Los Angeles for over two decades. He is self-taught, his methodology his own, tested and refined through the work itself. Before painting, he spent years as a DJ and producer, immersed in the moment when bass frequencies at high volume stop being something you hear and become something you feel. That understanding of sound as a corporeal, communal, and transformative force has never left the work.

Garcia's paintings are built on systems: rules governing line, composition, and structure that are declared and then inhabited. Early works established a geometric abstraction of stacked forms and algorithmic color. From there the work moved through gradients that suggest light in motion, and floral still lifes made from arcs of saturated acrylic. Each body of work built on the vocabulary of the last, the library of marks and forms expanding with each series.

That visual language carries across scales and surfaces, from an ongoing archive of drawings and works on paper, through paintings on canvas, to more than a decade of mural work across public spaces, private commissions, and institutional projects in the United States and internationally, where the work becomes communal and immersive in ways that echo his earliest understanding of what it means for something to be felt rather than simply seen.

Garcia has exhibited worldwide, with shows in Los Angeles, Tokyo, Berlin, Hong Kong, and London, alongside commissions for Louis Vuitton, Nike, The Standard Hotel, and Moog.

Murals, paintings, and projects can be found here.

Questions?

connect(at)erindgarcia.com