"For artist ektor garcia, no piece is ever truly finished-only paused. His sculptures, built from hours of crocheting, weaving and casting, resist the idea of permanence. In Loose Ends, garcia's first solo museum exhibition in his home state of California, San José Museum of Art presents his sprawling installation, and more works, that embody his ethos of continual transformation."
""Loose ends for me-the expression, to 'tie up loose ends'-is about the cyclical nature of coming back to things and leaving things loose and open," he says. The show brings together some early and newly constructed works, reshaped and reimagined into an evolving, singular constellation."
"The nomadic artist, born in Red Bluff, spent some of his youth in Mexico and beyond: "My family moved around a lot, and I move around a lot now as well, it's a problem I have; I can't stay put in one place for too long." Now, after spending much of his adult life living between Mexico, Europe and the U.S., garcia has returned to the Bay Area and has, for the time being, settled in San Francisco-a place that helped shape his early years as an artist."
Ektor Garcia treats each piece as paused rather than finished, creating sculptures through crocheting, weaving and casting that resist permanence. Loose Ends at San José Museum of Art assembles early and newly reshaped works into an evolving installation that emphasizes cyclical revisitation and openness. Garcia's nomadic life between Mexico, Europe and the U.S. informs an aesthetic that blends traditional Mexican handcraft techniques with copper wire, clay, leather, glass and bronze. Crocheted metal meets hardened bronze and woven leather entwines ceramic, producing tensions between softness and structure while honoring labor, memory and gendered craft histories.
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