Mike Garcia

born on the 26th of november 1983 in paco, manila and i grew up n the province of palawan. at an early age I discovered my inclination towards art and began exploring my talent. on 2001, i moved to manila to take up painting at the university of santo tomas and graduated in 2006 with a bachelor's degree in fine arts.I tried exploring different artistic styles and media and studied a lot of art movements for many years. after being a social-realist painter for a while, I now found my niche in abstract art and follows the works of jackson pollock and mark rothko. I discovered my style which I call "gestural realism" a non-representational abstraction characterized by elemental composition of lines and earth colors blended and blurred in a social-realist harmony.

EDUCATION

20012006 UNIVERSITY OF
SANTO TOMAS
Bachelor of Fine Arts Major in Painting,
candidate for outstanding thesis of the year

AWARDS AND CITAIONS

2007 - Finalist BREAKTHROUGH DESIGN
NATIONAL ART COMPETITION

2006 - Finalist PLDT-DPC TELEPHONE DIRECTORY COVER 20TH VISUAL ART NATIONAL COMPETITION


2005 - Finalist UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS CHALK-ART FESTIVAL

2004 - Semi-finalist METROBANK ART AND DESIGN EXCELLENCE NATIONAL COMPETITION

2003 - Semi-finalist
MASA ECOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT INC. NATIONAL PAINTING COMPETITION
GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007 - "SILENCED" Two-man Painting Exhibition,
Pablo Gallery, Space 7 Marikina Shoe Expo Cubao, Q.C.

2006 - "ARS GRATIA ARTIS" Thesis Exhibition, Beato Angelico Gallery, University of Santo Tomas

2006 - PLDT-DPC WINNERS EXHIBITION, National Museum Metro Manila

2005 - 58th AAP ANNUAL ART COMPETITION AND EXHIBITION, GSIS Museo ng Sining, Financial Center, Roxas Blvd, Manila

2004 - "PARA SA MASA" TOMASOCCORO ART GROUP EXHIBIT,
University of Santo Tomas Hospital Gallery

2004 - METROBANK ART AND DESIGN EXCELLENCE WINNERS FORUM, Met...