The Fernando Garcia Project: Fernando Garcia Created Sculptures of Miami Land Mark Building

Dedicated to Preserving the Art and Legacy of Conceptual Artist Fernando Garcia

This blog is dedicated to preserving the life and art legacy of conceptual artist Fernando Garcia who died in 1988. There were so many artists lost during this terrible time from the AIDS virus. As a result of his untimely death, many of his artworks are held in private collections with very few pieces every coming to market and Fernando seems to have become forgotten. We can't let this happen as Fernando is the most influential Cuban- American conceptual artist of the 70s and 80s. He paved the way for other artists with large displays of conceptual art in public places, not to mention his performance art work with the " NADA" group (conceptual performance artists) which created original impromptu conceptual and performance art in public places like train stations, fronts of restaurants etc.

Since 2006, the project has been collecting photographs of Fernando's artwork held in private collections and documenting his two decade career as an artist and want to document every work of art produced in his lifetime. Please help us and send stories and photographs of Fernando's work for the Project so we can preserve the his memory and his art legacy.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Fernando Garcia Created Sculptures of Miami Land Mark Building

(Reprint from April 2006 blog)

April 2006

Fernando Garcia’s created sculptures of the Centrust Building ( Bank of America) in Miami

Attorney Bonnie Lozak-Jimenez of the Law firm Hugo Black Jr owns a very interesting one of a kind Fernando Garcia Sculpture of the former Centrust Building, downtown Miami, now renamed the Bank of America Building. Martin Parker’s mother, Bernice Parker commissioned Fernando in 1988 to create this piece and gave it as a gift to Bonnie as thanks for legal work done of the behalf of the Parker family. The wooden tower is nearly 3 feet tall and each side is painted in Fernando’s unique style. On the bottom of the piece, Fernando signed it with his signature and called the piece, “Martin’s Annex”, a kind of inside joke, as Martin’s family had spent alot of time at Bonnies office, using her services.
This unique one of a kind sculpture is one of the largest sculptures that Fernando created and appears to be one of the last ones that he created of this type before he passed in 1989. If you have a Fernando Garcia sculpture, please contact the project so it may be documented.