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Naughty and Nice, Lillstreet Art Center, Chicago, USA.
Exhibition Runs: November 18 to January 2, 2012

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The Body is Thinking the Head: Edith Garcia, Pages 61-65
Ceramics: Art and Perception No. 85, 2011

NCECA Review 2011, Page 62-63
Ceramics Monthly, June to August, 2011

Artist Biography
Born in Los Angeles, California, Edith Garcia's work draws you into an alluring world of installation and sculpture. She focuses on the daily onslaught of emotional extortion we endure and the minimal occurrences that transpire each day, and she grafts them into site-specific installations and objects. Her current work derives from what she refers to as 'contemporary monsters', influenced by everyday life as well as by growing up in a society that uses the hybridisation of humans throughout its history.

Her body of work has been exhibited throughout North America, Mexico and Italy, in spaces such as the Northern Clay Center, Minnesota, Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas, Mexico City and is included in the permanent Sculpture Garden of the Archie Bray Foundation, Montana. She was awarded a McKnight Artist-in-Residence Fellowship at the Northern Clay Center, showed her work at 'Family of Clay' at CCA Ceramics, California, acted as a juror for the Jerome Foundation, and was Editor of 'VJ: audio-visual art + vj culture' (Laurence King Publishing).

She was also Visiting Lecturer at the University of Ulster, Ireland; UWIC Cardiff School of Arts, Wales; Camberwell College of the Arts and University of Westminster, UK. Her work was featured in exhibition and publication 'Confrontational Ceramics' in USA, Breaking the Mould: New Approaches to Ceramics, as well as featuring in Neu Keramik, Ceramic Review, Ceramic Monthly, Time Out London, and American Craft Magazine.

In 2009 she was Guest Curator for exhibition Contemporary Monsters at the Northern Clay Center and her work is currently featured in 500 Sculptures by Lark Books was an Invited Demonstrator at International Ceramics Festival at Aberystwyth, Wales. UK and was International Guest-Artist-In-Residence at The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, USA.

She has recently completed her research at the Royal College of Art in London working on research focusing around: The Absence and Presence of the Human Form in Sculpture-Where is the Vanishing Point? Been a Visiting Lecturer for Camberwell College of the Arts in London and is at the completing stages of the publication Ceramics and the Human Figure for A&C Black to be published in 2012.

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