Pablo Garcia Lopez
Ridgewood, NY
Residency: July-August 2017
Pablo Garcia Lopez was born in Madrid in 1977. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Biochemistry from Autonoma University, and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Complutense University, both located in Madrid, Spain. As a Neuroscientist, he published numerous scientific papers in international journals.
In 2008, he moved to New York when he obtained a grant from the Caixa Galicia Foundation to develop the “Cortical Garden” project in the School of Visual Arts. Later, he received a fellowship from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, where he graduated in 2012 (MFA, Sculpture).
In his last body of work, Silkworks, Pablo Garcia’s highly charged iconography speaks to such dramatic sentiment, where, like in the Baroque era, theatricality trumps the fainthearted. The drama in his work howls with highly charged iconography. Capturing the symbolic sources of Catholicism with eccentric materials is at the heart of his idiom. Employing silk as the whipcord of consciousness, he twists and weaves its thread in juxtaposition to more common materials.
Pablo has been an artist in residence at Brooklyn Art Space, Franconia Sculpture Park and Bronx Art Museum. Pablo has participated in exhibitions in Spain, Germany, Czech Republic, England, United States and Australia. His work is present in many private and public collections around the world.