Featured Artist

France Garrido

France Garrido is a collage/mixed media artist and painter, whose work has been exhibited Nationally and in China. She is on the Board of the National Association of Women Artists, as well as the Jury Head for the Works on Paper category. Other affiliations include Society for Art of Imagination, City Without Walls, Womens Studio Center, NY Artists Circle and Pro Arts, where she is the curator for slide exhibitions at the Jersey City Museum as well as members slide nights. Ms. Garrido is the founder and past Co-Director of The Collage/Assemblage Society, NY, NY.

Nature and Spirit are key to the artistic growth of this artist. Influenced by ‘primitive cultures’ and artists such as Hannah Hoch, Remedios Varo, Egon Schiele, and Jorge Gonzalez Camarena, to name a few. Working on an intuitive level and allowing the piece to speak to her during the process of creation whether there is an intent or not. The Circle and the Circle in the Square are universal symbols present in all religions & cultures, even the most primitive. She has developed a visual language, utilizing sacred geometry, which reaches out and seduces the viewer into a world of the unconscious. Striving to touch, deep within the viewers spirit, a truth or essence.

Above right: "Shiva Shiva Shiva" collage on illustration board, 21" x 21" (photos/paper)

Above left: "China Moon:Reverent Peach" collage on masonite, 24" x 24" (photos/fabric/wood/cord)

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