GATES OF HEAVEN

November 18 - December 31, 2023

Recent explorations by Erin D. Garcia have put the artist’s definitive visual language to work to create suggestive, often playful forms. Subtle techniques developed through physical and imaginative rigor embed bodily presence in the pieces. Colorful gradients seem alive. The viewer can sense human movement in the shape of an orange.

In Gates of Heaven, he continues this process to the point of paradox. Garcia’s ability to create moments that are so private and singular, so physical yet abstract, brings his work on an inward journey to reach the infinite. There’s a play between ideals and imperfections: rollers, brush tips and rough surfaces all have their say. The collection also draws on tropes and techniques previous writers and artists have used throughout history to try to comprehend paradise: you’ll see flowers, figures, landscapes and gateways.

This palette of rudimentary forms returns us to primary techniques of understanding the world. In Gates of Heaven Garcia succeeds in imagining a realm outside of this one: as if for the very first time.

-Jimmy Jolliff

Born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1979, Erin D. Garcia lives and works in Los Angeles. His work is a joyful exploration of shape, color, and process populated by plants and flowers, rhythmic figures, and colorful gradients that search where our capacity for abstraction intersects or conflicts with the sensory desire for specificity.

Garcia has exhibited world-wide alongside installations and projects for Louis Vuitton, Diesel, Adidas, United Arrows, Ace Hotels, Ginza Six, Sogo Seibu, and Moog.