NOVEMBER 5 to 26, 2022
Burning for Tomorrow
DENVER GARZA
Creative temperatures rise following visions of the complex self, layered with signs of spiritual fervor: imagined, patterned, ritualized; a craft of discovering and unfolding the mystery within. Rubedo, or redness in the alchemic language of Latin, imbue the works all over heating an intense combination of contrasts: formats deconstructed, formalism deferred, enlightenment in codes; an integration of opposites in the rubedo reaches the successful stage in this creative process as it marks the emergence of a new consciousness, the complete self.
Denver Garza presents a mixed media exhibition of works on paper, paintings, assemblages, and textile crafts, which explore the idea of alchemical fire - the burning desire for transmutation towards the unlocking of the inner mysteries of the self and the creation of the new.
Denver Garza is a multidisciplinary artist with an academic background in Psychology. His work stems from exploration of intrapersonal processes and environmental dynamics through diverse materiality and crafts. Since 2016 Garza has shown in various solo and group exhibits around Manila, and participated in the 2018 AIR-H program in Japan. He currently lives and works in Cavite.