Jana Garcia

An artist from Santa Catarina (1973), he was born among paints and brushes from his mother’s painting classes. Graduated in Industrial Design / Product Design from PUC-PR (1990-1994), Painting from the School of Music and Fine Arts of Paraná (1991-1994) and post-graduated in Marketing Management from INPG-SC (1997-1999) . She worked in large companies in the textile sector in the development of products and fashion collections, which in a way added structural elements to her work.
Sie beginnt ihre Karriere mit der Malerei, wobei sie sich an großen Meistern wie Matisse, Picasso und Di Cavalcanti orientiert und mit Farben, dem Weiblichen und der Vereinfachung der Linien arbeitet. Textilien werden nach und nach integriert, unter dem starken Einfluss ihrer Kindheitserinnerungen und Referenzen, mit all den handwerklichen Praktiken, die sie von den Frauen in ihrem Leben gelernt hat, um an Affektivität und Beziehungen zu arbeiten.

Ihr Lebenslauf umfasst mehr als 60 Einzel- und Sammelausstellungen in Brasilien und im Ausland.
She was part of several artistic collectives, chaired the Sectorial Chamber of Visual Arts / Municipal Council of Culture, participating in several curatorships. She represented Santa Catarina in the Children’s Human Rights Booklet Project with exhibitions in Hungary and Holland. Her works are present in publications and collections inside and outside the country.

Jana Neves Garcia’s works are guided by her feminine gaze and structured by signs and patterns inherited from her experience in the textile industry. Embroidery, crochet and overlapping fabrics add volumes and textures, gradually taking the place of paints. Her work rescues memories and affections, using handicrafts, the source of her ancestry, as a tool of expression and counterpoint to this liquid and accelerated time.