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Julio was born in Baja California in October of 1959. There, he was raised among the Indian Cochimi and a Russian settlement where they had rented the land for 50 years to mine for gold. It was the nature of his birthplace that produced him … a man in touch with nature and his quest to express it.
“My paintings come from deep within. They are in invitation to travel. It isn’t the movement from ocean to desert, but the vast journey through human experience.”
His paintings go back as far as when he was six years of age, and his passion took him through his youth and matured into adulthood. Painting every time he had the chance to, Julio Garcia married at age 21 and moved to the United States at age 24. When his first daughter was born he felt the unleashed necessity of painting and painting … like his time had come to show the world what he was born to offer. It was Garcia’s world of imagery where emotions rule and new ideas kept rising.
Julio Garcia is now in three museums’s permanent collections: The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), the Long Beach California Museum for the Mexican Artists of San Francisco, and the Houston International Fine Art Museum in Texas. Please join us in the emotional empowerment that constitutes traveling Garcia’s Inner Landscapes where “we are at once beautiful and proud and at once disassembled and broken.”