Biography
Sal Garcia was born in San Antonio,
Texas and grew up in California's Central Valley. He has resided
and worked in San Francisco for the last two and a half decades.
Noted for his unique use of color,
Sal Garcia is an artist of unusual range working in painting, printmaking,
sculpture and woodcarving. Movement and light are also very important
in his technique and reflect his early exposure to the work of
the Mexican master Siquieros at Taller Siquieros in Cuernavaca,
Mexico.
Sal was active in the Chicano and indigenous
peoples' rights movement in the sixties, seventies and eighties.
During this period he worked with numerous activist artists groups
including "La
Brocha
del Valle" in the Central Valley, and was an early staff member
at the Galeria de la Raza where he had the opportunity to curate
numerous exhibitions.
He has shown broadly in California,
in the United States, and internationally. His work is in numerous
public and private collections including those of the Mexican Museum
and the musician, Carlos Santana.
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