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Dominican Artist. He studied Graphic Arts at the Salesian Technical Institute, points at the Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo (UASD), published in the Catholic University of Santo Domingo. He was professor of commercial art in the Salesian Technical Institute and course design and illustration at the YMCA of Santo Domingo. Teaching taught in the School of Advertising and Architectural Design at the Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE) and the power of Design at the University Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU). His career includes both art and literature. Was assistant to the direction of the cultural supplement of the newspaper Listin Diario, writing from there numerous articles on art and literature. In 1999 publicóel word street poetry book, in 2002, wrote, "Quoting Geniuses" I and II, mass media cultural project through the newspaper Hoy. The Listin Diario newspaper was published its Third Draft mass diffusion: Who's Who? Alexis Garcia is the creator and founder of Mini recipe HEALTH, small-format magazine Health, science and art. He has designed book covers and advocacy plan, of American writer Judith Kerman, (which illustrates one of his works) and "Love Letter to King Tut" by the Cuban writer Dulce Maria Loynaz, translated into English by Judith Kerman In his home made his first solo show "Flight I" (1996) and "Flight II" in 1999, mounted with only nine pieces each. His third single, "Elements" is showed the Board Wifredo Garcia House Theatre in 2003 and his fourth "In Alma al Aire" in the Mask Gallery Café in Punta Cana in 2003 and 2004 participated in the exhibition "Meeting" Montada at the Centro de Bellas Artes in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, and Museo de las Casas Reales, Santo Domingo. He has also participated in art contests sponsored by CNN in Spanish. In 2001 she participated in the 2nd. Painting Prize of the Americas, Casa de Teatro. His artistic creations are in private collections in Cuba, United States, Puerto Rico, France, Spain and the Dominican Republic.

TEXT FOR CRITICAL ________________________________________ Odalis G. PEREZ Member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and the Dominican Association of Art Critics (ADCA) Alexis Garcia is a Dominican artist who has participated in collective and individual exhibitions, not only as an application and mode of occurrence from the social, but as the possibility of entering into the dialogue necessary for every artist who understands art as a level of abstraction, defined under the new language, calligraphy and systems of representation. The artist would like to respond to the real thing, but from the art, that is, from what is hidden or is expected as a code-expressive. García's painting does not abandon its culture: the Caribbean. Thus, linear color stay a way to be sure of figurative expressionism and post-expressionistic view of the thematic and formal conjunctions reveal the cultural order of painting and painting. All this stems from an idea of the painted symbolic germination and obvious qualities of their mythical creation itself. The adoption of this view, no doubt neofigural, invites the viewer to consider the look and the way we see the artist who insists on the various keys of the presence of the paint. Garcia has his points of significance that occurs in context, the justification of an aesthetic not hesitant, accepted as poiesis and mimesis. Both concepts refer to contact points and lines of thought and analysis. If we look at parts of the series Every mind is a world ... incorporate the same open-world tradition in dialogue with modernity or modernities that emerged between 1910 and 1930 in Europe. The line you want to preserve the lines of the composition as a fingerprint, account registration and, in turn exceeds what is the literal image to form a polysemic image, where the procedure formal gestalt effects, constructive and color in the representational order. The triple gaze focused on a single universe admits closeness and distance the same time, so that the strengths of the picture are theme-visual axis formed by the crossing mythical icon base. The narrative that motivates the artist's hand records from meetings where nature and culture as a state witness to the models that underlie the primary images. After a certain gesture entrenched in the face that extends the look and the look of that registration, we are seeing a movement where the abstract, symbolic and dreamlike than the thickness of a basis for charging other values and other content particularize supported by convention and belief in the nature and culture of the Caribbean. In the series Eco-geometric intuition, where Alexis Garcia takes hold in the abstract and geometric directionality, we note that the artist conceptualized the symbol as a way to promote some understanding of their world. And this is how the geometric abstraction of Mondrian and Neo, it is based to achieve compositions on the same axis and relationship building chosen visual narrative. Geometric intuition-eco-No. 1, 2, 3 and 4, shows the profile of surface spaces and spaces in depth, at which the eye-infinite No. 4 justifies an imaginary from a geometric shape that has been transformed by the time of abstraction that we see on the horizon and one eye look and a line of what is seen. Alexis Garcia Caribbeanness remember reading in a world line type, key images and legacies, from magical-artistic purposes, promote community narratives, mythic, visual and thematic justified by the impulse that leads the viewer to recognize differences, cuadrajes and cruises in the Caribbean islands. Alexis García artist invites us to his exhibition flights, icons, fragments of worlds, geometries and swellings of nature, that magical line up wonderful pictorial aesthetic experience, crossed by natural and historical routes that lead to a space artistic and ecological type memorial, creational and whose inscription found in the Caribbean islands. (EXCERPT)