20x200Artists Giovanni Garcia-Fenech

Giovanni Garcia-Fenech is based in Brooklyn, New York, where he lives with his wife, the writer Sabine Heinlein, a rabbit, a cat and a Siamese fighting fish named The Doctor. His work has been featured in shows in New York, California, Texas, Oregon, Iceland and The Netherlands.

 

Work on 20x200

Black on Blue

Stats

education:

1993-95 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (MFA) 1991 Middlesex Polytechnic-Quicksilver Place, London, England (Exchange Program) 1989-92 University of Houston, Houston, Texas (Concentration: Painting) 1984-88 Austin College Sherman, Texas (BA Psychology, BA Art)

website:

http://unutterable.org/

Inspirations:

I love pre-Renaissance illustrated manuscripts and Indian miniatures. I aim to emulate their clarity and directness in my work.

From:

I was born in Mexico City, grew up in Baja California Sur, moved to Texas with my family when I was 12, tried London for six months and have been living in New York for the past 14 years.

Reading:

I'm an avid reader, and our apartment is now in dire need of new bookshelves. I recently trudged through Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus. It takes some effort to get through the first third, but it picks up after that. A little. Now I'm reading some short stories by Gogol while I wait for Thomas Bernhard's autobiography to show up in the mail.