"Monica Kim Garza presents her third solo exhibition Good Old Raisins and Peanuts (GORP) at Ruttkowski;68 in Paris. Garza has been painting what she calls her "character" since university. Originally more figurative, she has now abstracted it into several circles to represent the head and body (and, sometimes, boobs), with a few lines to mark out defining features - eyes, nose, a buttcrack."
"In Good Old Raisins and Peanuts (GORP) Garza puts her character outdoors, hiking, rock climbing, and lounging on picnic blankets. The accoutrements - backpacks, t-shirts - are pops of colour on neutral bases, which are made up of so much paint that gobs of texture look like rock faces that have been eroded over years. For some of the paintings, the paint layering took over a year - a technique Garza was inspired to use from Eugène Leroy."
Monica Kim Garza presents her third solo exhibition Good Old Raisins and Peanuts (GORP) at Ruttkowski;68 in Paris. Garza’s recurring "character" is rendered as abstracted circles for head and body, sometimes indicating breasts, with minimal lines for facial and bodily markers. The works place the character outdoors—hiking, rock climbing, lounging—while backpacks and t-shirts punctuate neutral, heavily painted bases. Thick layered paint creates textured surfaces resembling eroded rock faces and, when viewed without figures, functions as landscapes. Garza incorporates yarn, ribbon and cloth as belts and shoelaces, turning them into detritus-like traces that suggest prior passage and adventure.
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