Natalia Garcia-Lee
Bio
Natalia Garcia-Lee has employed her practice to dissect the human species from biology to behavioral sciences. Her all-encompassing approach displays her visions of the literal, social, and ephemeral, mechanisms that structure the world we occupy. Throughout her series-based practice, she illuminates parallels across varying spheres of our natural and manmade worlds accentuated and approached with rigor.
The weight of Garcia-Lee’s iconic and consistent use of layering – from collage to canvas – is amplified as the redactions and additions provide metaphors within the creation of her narrative of a timeless reality. Natalia Garcia-Lee earned her BFA in Sculpture from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York (1995) – a curricular choice that would inform the qualities of space and dimension within her work. Natalia Garcia-Lee has been represented by LnS Gallery since 2019, and in 2022 debuted with her first solo exhibition: ‘The Measure of Man.’
Statement
My artwork interpretively illustrates the constructs of human behavior, decoding the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of what we do as a species. We have organized areas of thought into categories such as science, mathematics, and architecture, and have elevated them to a degree of excellence. We cannot forget that they all stem from our most primitive minds, rooted in our survival instincts. My artwork dissects the trajectory of this path along with its consequences, reducing our ability to think to the layers of symbols and images found within my work. I find this method to be the most effective way to dialogue with this innate conflict. Hyper-modernization has transformed the world we live in morphing our sense of environment, sense of self, and ultimately providing new problems for our species that find solutions primal behaviors disguised as advancement.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
