Donna Garcia is lens-based artist, filmmaker, curator, art director and educator based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Originally from Boston, her work often illustrates a semiotic dislocation that has been organically reconstructed in a way that gives her subjects a voice in the present moment; something they often did not have in the past. Her images rise above what they actually are and become empathic recreations in a fine art narrative. She often utilizes self-portraiture and motion to provide an indication of the "other" in her work; a surplus threat to the perpetuity of our modern day grand narratives in defining elements like gender and race. Her work reveals the self as a stronger potential that does not correlate with a bounded social order and her subjects don’t abide by rules.
She has worked as an art director for Ogilvy, NYC, , and is a contributing editor of LENSCRATCH.
