Maker’s Medium: Francisco Garcia uses video art, structure variety to express emotional impact
Francisco Garcia's artistic journey began with Legos, which sparked his interest in architecture, but his work today merges photography and video to create interdisciplinary works that often call back to his childhood in San Diego 15 minutes from Tijuana.
"Looking for Noam Chomsky, eating chips as Ricardo Magón – Francisco Garcia’s video art is as idiosyncratic as it is intriguing.The fourth-year art and Spanish student’s first medium was Legos, which prompted an interest in architecture as a child. But throughout high school, he said he always had a camera on him and applied to UCLA with a portfolio of photography. Today, Garcia said he still approaches art with the eye and mind of a photographer, though he works in a variety of mediums, video art in particular.
“You can’t have video without the history of photography,” Garcia said. “I don’t necessarily see (the mediums) as distinct in my own work.”"— David Egan, Feb. 26 2021
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