Ric Garcia

Ricardo Garcia is a Cuban-American painter and digital printmaker, who exhibits art in the DC metro area. In 2012, he began to sample visual information from various sources and combine them into a new expression of Americana to create a space for conversations about diversity and identity. He works in a pop art style to build on a tradition that has a place in art history, and to represent ideas with immediacy, power, and flexibility. He creates each limited edition print using a Wacom drawing tablet and digital pen. The visual elements—texture, color, and form—come from several photographic sources.

Garcia is a recipient of a 2019 Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council. His work has been exhibited at the American University Museum in Washington, DC, and the College Park Aviation museum in College Park, MD. His art resides in public and private art collections, including the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank and the Arts and Cultural Heritage Division of The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Prince George's County, Maryland collection. Garcia earned a BFA in graphic design and illustration from the University of Miami. He works as a visual designer at the Smithsonian Institution.