Warm Glow, Red Hearts – Nancy Garcia In Photographs by Adriane Schramm

Pendu Mag

May
28th
2010

NANCY GARCIA by ADRIANE SCHRAMM
Two years ago, Nancy Garcia and I met during the Noise/Art show at KS Art gallery. I don’t remember formally meeting Nancy, but feeling like I already knew her in a soft magnetic way, we just turned to each other and talked. I felt more like I was recognizing an empathetic familiar. She was warm to me and showed me her drawings which were very much as she seemed to be. The lines were gentle, cut, lithe and urgent. The KS art show was also right across the street from No Fun Fest 2008 and Nancy was also set to perform that night with Thurston Moore. We kept in touch and I found that she was not just an artist in these two ways, but in almost every way. She was also a performance artist and a dancer. She was extending herself, in art, as a whole being. She was expressing in total ,which transcends and illuminates all hard and terrific human truths. She inspired me and we exchanged thoughts about making something together. I asked her if she would take some photos with me and it was the best of collaborations. We were in such a present act of exchange, communicating and creating together. It was like painting with the warmest definitive hues of real living life, like slicing a palette of grass with a red, wet heartbeat.

She reminded me that the body, the vitality of working our blood can actualize our art as well as all the beautiful paints.