Dyan Garza relishes in the simple and honest nature of her primary media, wire and paint. She uses her wire sculptures and her paintings as a vehicle for expressing, representing, the energy and dynamism of her thoughts and meditations. Garza writes, “Inspired by empathy, compassion, and verve for life as movement and balance. Our interior realms and exterior lives with ourselves, each other, and our earth. Sculpting with steel wire, I am compelled by its integral strength and memory. Its resistance to uncoiling. Potential. Strength. Grace. Shaping wire, one is made aware of this. Wire deftly holds in mid-air, a line, movement, space, form. Weightlessness and shadows defining space and movement.”
More recently, Garza has explored different materials to create sculptures, including wood, bent metal, and acrylic. In these forms of intersecting planes, these works still exude subtle dynamism and restrained grace. Garza’s paintings which are primarily oil, are centered around creating spaciousness and spaces within so that images begin to emerge from her layers.
Dyan Garza is a San Francisco- based poet and artist. She has had solo exhibitions with galleries including Engine Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Shibumi Gallery, Berkeley, CA; Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA; and Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. She has participated in group exhibitions at galleries including The Jones Institute, San Francsico, CA; Terra Gallery, San Francisco, CA; M.A.S. Studio, Los Angeles, CA; Anima, Los Angeles, CA; Viva, Long Beach, CA; and Chandler Gallery, Mill Valley, CA. She has completed numerous public, private and commercial commissions, including those for Latino Issues Forum, San Francisco, CA; BET, Manhattan Center, New York, NY; Mercedez Benz, Maui, Hawaii; and New York Fashion Week, Bryant Park, New York, NY.