ARTIST STATEMENT
My practice is rooted in painting, a medium I return to instinctively when confronting internal conflict. Each piece begins with a personal tension—an unresolved feeling, a recurring thought, or an abject fascination—that I can’t quite name until it’s been externalized on the canvas. Through this transformation, I create work that feels intimate yet distant enough to speak about without unease. Once a painting is complete, I reverse-engineer its meaning by the creating imagery, connect it back to personal symbolism, and often consult dream interpretation texts as a way to decode the unconscious threads embedded in the work. This process is less about finding absolute meaning, and more about tracing my emotional standpoint beneath the surface. I’m drawn to the uncanny, the grotesque, and the strange—imagery that feels familiar but wrong, or beautiful but unsettling. These qualities guide both my research and my visual language. By combining academic inquiry, personal reference photography, and a carefully selected color palette, I strive to create work that is emotionally charged, psychologically layered, and wholly my own.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Vianée Anahil Garcia is a Mexican painter from Hobart, Indiana. In May of 2025 she has recently graduated with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts with a focus in painting and minor in Art History from Indiana University Northwest. Vianée has had the honor of presenting her artwork at the BFA Undergraduate Senior Thesis Show at IUN (2025) and the INTAC Sustainability Jam for OCAD University International Exhibit (2025). Along with exhibitions, Vianée has presented her academic research at university conferences to discuss the concept of abjection in artworks. Post graduation she looking forward to connecting with artists, creating more artwork, and bringing her artistic visions to life.
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