Hebé García at Taos Ceramics Center-Of Thoughts, Memories, and the Silence
2022 — Of Thoughts, Memories, and the Silence
Venue: Taos Ceramics Center, Taos, New Mexico
Dates: August 13 to September 24, 2022
Type: Solo exhibition
Artist’s reception: August 13, 2022, 5–7 p.m.
Works exhibited: Figurative oil paintings on linen and ceramic sculptures, including “Alimentando mis pensamientos” ©HG.
Press coverage: The Taos News, August 8, 2022 — “Hebé García at Taos Ceramics Center” by Dena Miller
Links: Taos News article
Hebé García’s 2022 solo exhibition, Of Thoughts, Memories, and the Silence, at Taos Ceramics Center presented figurative oil paintings and ceramic sculptures that explore feminism, mythology, memory, and cultural roots. The exhibition invited viewers to engage with each work as a point of departure: a place to connect, interact, and create their own narrative.
The exhibition title refers to Norse mythology and to Odin’s two ravens, whose names are commonly translated as “thought” and “memory.” The reference reflects a recurring theme in García’s work and her long-standing affinity for birds as both subject and symbol.
The Taos News profiled García in advance of the exhibition in an article by Dena Miller, published August 8, 2022. Jules Epstein, gallery director at Taos Ceramics Center, described García’s paintings as “elegant, clean, and dreamy expressions in oil” and her ceramics as “storytelling guardians of their surrounds.”
The exhibition brought together work shaped by García’s artistic formation in Puerto Rico and her later studio practice in New Mexico. Her ceramic practice developed through years of study in San Juan with Hiram Rosado at the Liga de Arte de San Juan and with Luis Ivorra at his studio. Both were established Puerto Rican ceramic artists and teachers whose shared-studio-and-kiln model gave students space to work, create, experiment, and learn alongside one another. García later continued her ceramic studies through workshops at Penland School of Craft and with other recognized ceramicists.
García’s painting practice traces back to childhood in Puerto Rico, where her mother’s landscape paintings were part of her visual world. She earned a BFA from the University of Southwestern Louisiana, graduating Cum Laude in 1986. In 2015, García moved with her husband from Puerto Rico to New Mexico, where they built a mesa-top home and studio overlooking Cerro Pedernal in Abiquiú.
Newspaper arts page featuring the article “Hebé García at Taos Ceramics Center,” with images of García’s figurative paintings and ceramic sculpture from the exhibition Of Thoughts, Memories, and the Silence.
