León Gallery FINE ART & ANTIQUES
32 Nona Garcia (1978) Fi g ure S t udy #1 ( a si d e ) si gned a nd d a t ed 2 0 0 8 ( v e rs o ) oil on c a n va s 48” x 3 6 ” (1 2 2 c m x 9 1 cm )
P 400,000 Provenance: Boston Gallery
Nona Garcia gained international renown after she won the 2001 grand prize of the ASEAN Art Awards sponsored by the Philip Morris Group of Companies. Artists such as Nona Garcia paved the way for Filipino emerging talents to seep into the consciousness of audiences outside Manila’s cocoon. A few years later in Hong Kong, Nona Garcia firmly established her reputation as one of art’s brightest stars. Nona Garcia’s ability to cross over to different art media has made her at the cutting edge of art-making. Besides being an excellent painter, she is also a conceptual and installation artist. She consistently explores the ideas of desertion and remembrances, as well as concealment and display. As can be seen in “Figure study 1,” Nona Garcia adds a kind of observant distance that opens up space for the artist to inject enigma and multiple meanings into her otherwise straightforward manner of painting.
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