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Rowan\u2019s Sphere\u00a0<\/strong>is a paradoxical world inhabited by figures with sharp collars and dignified postures, relating wonder from a previous era. Yet, they are painted in our post-mystery age where discoveries have radiused the world\u2019s enigmatic corners. Their faces wear vanity specific to looking at neverending LED-lit newsfeeds. But Garcia paints light that is ambiguous, as in her self portrait \u201cSelfie\u201d that is at the same time alive and dead, in a state where one\u2019s\u00a0spirit just escaped its body. An image only captured through time, these daguerreotype-like paintings show a record of the subject that tries to keep attention \u2013 as in during a camera\u2019s exposure \u2013 time condensing the sharpness and blur of reality. Garcia\u2019s live-sitting process of painting seems to give the viewer time to meditate on this interaction. The faces show something about our self-obsessed age; ourselves on a multitude of screens \u2013 coy spirits looking at our own profiles in a mirror of some imaginary dressing room. They also show that outside of that room, there is a moment one can actually believe in a current mysteriousness.\u00a0-Juan Fontanive.<\/p>\n Friday, March\u00a07th Picture Farm Gallery\u00a0<\/a> Special Thanks to <\/p>\n
\n6:00pm – 9:00pm<\/p>\n
\n338 Wythe Ave
\nbtwn S.1st & S.2nd Streets
\nWilliamsburg, Brooklyn<\/p>\n
\nFast Ashley’s<\/a>,\u00a0Brooklyn Brewery<\/a>,\u00a0VitaCoco<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0The Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts<\/p>\n