Miguel Garcia creates his own original art; colorful images of human figures and common objects created in an automatic mode that sends the viewer's mind into a state of deep abstraction due to the positioning of the objects in a two-dimensional space and in a novel style that creates the unexpected! With honest creativity, emotion, vitality and clear thinking, the trusting of a creative mind and brushed to the extreme limits of representation of the object-Man, accidentally showing a bit of mystery, strangeness and sometimes humor, this unique expression offers a different perspective of seeing our own inner and outside environments, a phase that reveals the endless expansion of floating images that occupy mass, the space. His work is currently shown in Mexico City at the Alberto Misrachi Gallery, in Hong Kong at the 10 Chancery Lane Gallery and in Californian at the Marion Meyer Gallery, in Laguna Beach. Jadraque has exhibited and lived in different cities of the world such as Barcelona, Paris, New York, Mexico City and Hong Kong. His talent has been widely documented in major periodicals globally and on a special PBS documentary here in the United States.
EDUCATION: 2003-2004 Bronze Casting, OTIS College of Art and Design. Los Ángeles California Digital Imaging, OTIS College of Art and Design. Los Ángeles, California 1981-1986 Drawing &Painting, Escuela Libre del Mediterraneo (J.Torrens Llado), Barcelona, Spain. 1981-1984 Life Drawing &Painting, Real Circulo Artistico de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. 1976-1979 Sculpture, Escuela de Artes Aplicadas y Oficios Artisticos, Palencia, Spain. 1971-1979 Drawing, Painting & Composition, Escuela de Artes Aplicadas y Oficios Artisticos, Palencia, Spain.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2005 Clotheslines. 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong. 2005 Tendales. Marion Meyer Gallery, Laguna Beach. California. 2003 Schaverman Library Gallery, El Camino College, Los Angeles, California 2003 My beautiful Hong Kong, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong 2003 Cartoon Network studios, Burbank, California 2002 People in line, Marion Meyer Gallery, Laguna Beach, California 2002 People in line, AZ Productions Gallery, Los Angeles, California 2001 Windows, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong Paintings, Marion Meyer Gallery, Laguna Beach, California 2001 People in line, Galeria Alberto Misrachi, Mexico D.F. 2000 Coffee Cops, Marion Meyer Gallery, Laguna Beach, California 1999 Clothes Line Installation, AZ Productions Gallery, Los Angeles, California 1998 Recent Works, St. Louis Artist´ Guild at Oak Knoll, San Louis, Missouri 1997 Black and Wite, Merging One Gallery, Santa Monica, California 1996 Hotel Nikko, Galeria Alberto Misrachi, Mexico D.F. 1996 Paintings, Casa de Tilly, Hong Kong 1993 Clothes line Installation, Landscape of United States, Ca´Brea Restaurant, Los Angeles, California 1992 Landscape and Bodegones, Cultural Center, Diputacion Provincial de Palencia, Palencia , Spain 1992 Coffee Cups, Ca´Brea Restaurant Exhibit in conjuntion with American Cancer Society. Los Angeles, California 1991 Galeria J.C. Silve, Valle de Bravo, Mexico 1991 Galeria Alberto Misrachi, Mexico D.F. Vertigo Club, Los Angeles, California 1988 Quinto Centenario del Descubrimiento de America, U.S. Grand Hotel, San Diego, California Quinto centenario del Descubrimiento de America, MGM Studios, Culver City, California 1988 Quinto centenario del Descubrimiento de America, Hotel Roosevelt, Hollywood, California 1988 Improvisation, comedy Club, Los Angeles, California 1988 Vertigo Club, Los Angeles, California 1987 L.A.´s Spanish heritage, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA. 1987 Rogers on Rodeo Gallery, Beverly Hills, California 1983 Portraits, Salon Piti Hall, Hemosillo, Sonora, Mexico 1981 Bodegones, Galeria Caja Central de Avila, Avila, España 1980 Retratos, Bodegones y Paisajes, Delegacion de cultura, Palencia, España 1979 Bodegones, Galeria Sala Borja, Valladolid, España
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS.
Apostolic Palace, Vatican City, Italy
Fundacion Diaz Caneja, Palencia, España
Spain 92 Foundation, Washington D.C, USA
Bilingual Arts Foundation, Los Angeles, California
Plaza de la Raza, Los Angeles, California
Cedars Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, California
National Tourist Office of Spain, Los Angeles, California
Banco Exterior de España, Los Angeles, Califonia
Hospitl Infantil Federico Gomez, Mexico D.F.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2005 Plural View. Studio 18, Los Angeles, California.
2003 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, New York
2002 Yellowstone Art Museum, Small works auction
1996 Sculpture Choc Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, CaliforniaWAR
1996 Jackie Kodner Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
1996 USC, Town and Gown Hall.
1992 Alberto Misrachi Gallery, Mexico D.F., Mexico
1989 Q Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1988 Galerie Michelangelo, Las Vegas, Nevada
1987 La Pallete Gallery, Los Angeles,California
1987 Bruch Gallery, Los Angeles, California
AWARDS:
1999 Local Hero of the Year Award Hispanic Heritage month. KCET and Union Bank of California
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2003 A lasting impression, Kavita Daswani South China Post, Hong Kong, June 22
2002 South China Morning Post, Oct.19, Hong KongArtScene, Sep. The Monthly Digest to Art in Southern California
Laguna News-Post, Roberta Carasso Aug.1, Laguna Beach, California
2001 Hong Kong Magazine, Clare Tyrrel Oct. 19, Hong Kong
2000 Mural, Alejandra Perez Bernal. El Universal, Mexico D.F. Nov.1
1999 Jose Fuentes-Salinas, La Opinion, Los Angeles, California, Sep 8
1996 Sunday Morning Post Magazine, Hong Kong, June 2
1995 Juan Rodriguez, La Opinion, Los Angeles, California, Sep. 8
1994 Ana Cecilia Romero, Vogue, Mexico, August
Patricia Lortia, La sencillez de la linea, Epoca, Mexico, Jul.25
Carmen Rosas, El Universal, Mexico, June 19
Rutely Conde, Los Angeles Times, Nuestro Tiempo, Aug.24
Adela Salinas, Reforma, Mexico, June 16
Ana M. Lonsi, Excelsior, Mexico, June 15
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1992 tano, El Diario Palentino, España, Sep 10
J.A. Mellado, Alerta, España, Sep 10
1990 Juana Vera, El Mundo Magazine, España, Aug. 26
A contrast of Cultures, Hispanic American Family, Sumer, USA
Juan C. Napel, La Opinion, Los Angeles June 13
1989 Images of Prophecy, The Book, Los Angeles, February
1988 Mino Moral, El Norte de Castilla, España, July 3
1987 Artist Creates a View of L.A. to Put before the King, Nikki Finke,
Los Angeles Times, Aug. 14
Alicia Alarcon, La Opinion, Aug. 22
1982 Tomas Herrera, El Diario Palentino, Nov.4