ABOUT THE ARTIST

Originally from Puerto Rico, Hebé García and her husband visited Abiquiu, NM in 2013 for the first time. It took just a week for them to fall in love with Abiquiu and its surroundings. By 2015 they were ready to move to New Mexico and were lucky to find a beautiful spot on top of a Mesa where they now have their home and García’s Artist Studio. García’s work—a diverse range of painting, sculpture, and installation—explores the intersections of feminism, mythology, and cultural roots. She is endlessly intrigued by the internal and external mysteries of humanity, how we navigate our emotions, desires, fantasies and impulses. The human figure plays a central role on her work, which straddles the line between the surreal and the real. García presents us with a set of circumstances that can unfold in various direction and, wants her work to act as a point of departure, encouraging the viewer to connect, interact, and ultimately create their own narrative.

 Hebé García graduated from the University of Southwestern Louisiana with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in 1986. She has participated in numerous collective and individual shows within Puerto Rico and the USA, including the prestigious Muestra Nacional de Arte of 2013 de PR; La Entrada del Espejo 2016, San Antonio TX; Celebration of Clay 2018, Taos NM; A Certain Sense of Her 2019, Beeville, TX; Ceramic Wall Works, Roseville, CA; and From the Ground UP XXIX at the Museum of Art Las Cruces, Las Cruces, NM amongst others. García’s work forms part of private and public collections throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.