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Togonon Gallery

October 1 - November 1, 2009

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77 Geary Street Second Floor San Francisco, CA 94108
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Struggle Servanco Garcia, Scream 3, oil on canvas, 22x28, 2008
Togonon Gallery is pleased to present new paintings of Servando Garcia in a solo exhibition. This is Garcia’s third solo exhibition at Togonon Gallery. In an unusual move, the show will include what the artist refers to as his “failed” paintings as well as his “successful” ones. Garcia is obsessed with notions of ontology and expression. He uses a variety of formal means to create an emotive spatial tension in his work. In this exhibition, the paintings depict different visions of a single scene on multiple canvases, lending a view into his emotional and actual painting process. Garcia’s paintings move from the representational to minimal to almost surreal. They are close-ups of his process-- true examples of the challenge to create his work. Garcia is currently in an exhibition “Echo of A Whole” at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (CAF), Santa Barbara, California until October 18, 2009. He has exhibited nationally and internationally. Servando Garcia obtained his BFA from The San Francisco Art Institute in 2000 and his MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. He lives and works in the Bay Area.