Artist Dialogue: Joe Ramiro Garcia

Artist Dialogue: Joe Ramiro Garcia A Dialogue on Memory and Ancestral Knowledge between Artist Joe Ramiro Garcia and Curator hazel batrezchavez Tuesday, December 1, 2026 12:30 – 1:30 pm NHCC | Wells Fargo Auditorium Join NHCC Curator hazel batrezchavez for a dedicated series of one-on-one conversations in connection with our Community Gallery exhibition i thought i saw you yesterday. Each dialogue functions as an individual chapter, unpacking a single artist’s material practice, ancestral ties, and creative process. This dialogue with artist Joe Ramiro Garcia focuses on exploring the intersection of artistic process, materiality, and abstraction. i thought i saw you yesterday is a group exhibition that explores memory and ancestral knowledge to create a dialogue between life cycles, food, land, place, and the body. Featuring artworks by artists Amanda Dannáe Romero, ashleigh steele chavez, Caroline Liu, claudia hermano, Esteban Ismael Durán, Jesus Miguel Avena, Joe Ramiro Garcia, Margarita Paz-Pedro, and Stephanie J. Woods. Free Community Event, please register in advance using the link below. PLEASE MAKE YOUR RESERVATION HERE! About the artist: Joe Ramiro Garcia is an Art Institute of Chicago–educated artist who moved to Santa Fe from his native Houston in 1987. In his paintings, he creates an image or pattern on paper that’s soaked in gum arabic and water, next the paper plate is charged with oil paint and then hand pressed onto a painting surface. It’s a transfer method similar to those used by Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, and Nancy Spero—but also vastly different, because Garcia doesn’t silkscreen, monoprint, or etch. The end results are oil paintings that Garcia calls “open narratives” due to layered imagery. Garcia, who is represented by Blue Gallery in Kansas City, has recently had several solo exhibitions at Santa Fe’s LewAllen Galleries. Artist Dialogue: Joe Ramiro Garcia | New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs