Cay Garcia

Cay and Kelvin Designs

Cut Paper Images, Jewelry

105 4th Street #15
Albuquerque, NM
505-573-3541
Cay@CayGarcia.com
www.CayGarcia.com

Artist Statement

I have been cutting paper images for over 20 years, beginning in middle school with Birthday and Christmas cards for family members. Over the years these special occasion cards developed in complexity becoming gifts themselves. During college I began making wall art after discovering artist text papers that have higher cotton content, are UV resistant, acid-free and more brightly colored than regular construction paper. Since then the paper images have taken on deeper depth and intricacy. Using various self-taught techniques of layering, stacking, and piecing some of my works may contain over a thousand individually cut parts. In addition to making wall art I've explored the possibility of wearable art through mounting extremely small paper images in silver and glass to create pins, allowing people to carry their landscapes and gardens with them. In the past few years the Day of the Dead images I have created have become especially popular and are featured in many of the miniature scenes I create.

Biography

Cay lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with her husband Kelvin and their two children and works out of a studio at the Downtown Contemporary Art Center located at 4th St. and Central. She shows her work throughout the year at Amapola Gallery in Old Town and several local shows including the Downtown Growers Market in Albuquerque and the Contemporary Hispanic Market in Santa Fe the last weekend in July.

Galleries

Cay Garcia Shop	Online
Park Fine Art	Albuquerque, NM Downtown
Amapola Gallery	Old Town Albuquerque, NM

Events

November 10 - 11, 2007	Heard Museum Spanish Market, Phoenix, Arizona Outdoor market 9:30am to 5pm Saturday and Sunday
November 17 - 18, 2007	Placitas Holiday Sale, Anasazi Winery in Placitas, NM Saturday and Sunday 10am to 5pm
November 24 - 25, 2007	7th Annual Winter Contemporary Hispanic Market, El Museo in Santa Fe, NM Saturday 9am to 5pm and Sunday 9am to 4pm
November 30 - December 2, 2007	Corrales Holiday Show, San Ysidro Church Corrales, NM Friday through Sunday 10am to 5pm

A Simple Miracle

Acid-Free paper image featuring a portrait of the Guadalupe contemplating the use of the rose for "a simple miracle" to help San Juan Diego spread the message of his vision.

$850 original. Framed to 20" x 16." Limited Ed. Giclee (16"x12" w/border) $50.

16"H x 12"W

Photo by Miqui Mendez

Gifts for Mother and Son

Acid-free paper image depicting a scene from the acclaimed novel, "Bless Me Ultima," by Rudolfo Anaya. Here Antonio, the main character, dreams of his birth, delivered by Ultima, and the contrasting styles of celebration by his mother and father's families.

Original $2,100 framed to 11"x14" , Limited Ed. Giclees (11"x14" w/border) $45.

7"H x 10"W

Photo by Cay Garcia