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.
She begins her career with painting identifying great masters such as Matisse, Picasso and Di Cavalcanti, working with color, the feminine and the simplification of lines. Textiles are incorporated little by little, under the strong influence of her childhood memories and references, with all the manual practices she learned from the women in her life, working on affectivity and relationships.

She has more than 60 individual and collective exhibitions in her curriculum, in Brazil and abroad.
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.