Oral history interview with Enrique Guy Garcia
name: label: Interviewee
content: Garcia, Enrique Guy, 1928-
label: Interviewer
content: Martínez, Juan A.
topic: label: Topic
content: Latino and Latin American artists
label: Topic
content: Artists -- Florida -- Miami -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Painters -- Florida -- Miami -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Sculptors -- Florida -- Miami -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Expatriate artists -- Florida -- Miami -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Artists -- Cuba -- Interviews
label: Topic
content: Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Florida -- Miami
label: Topic
content: Cuban American art
label: Topic
content: Cuban American artists
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics, and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Garcia, Enrique Guy, 1928-
label: Interviewer
content: Martínez, Juan A.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Enrique Guy Garcia (1928-) is a sculptor and painter from Miami, Fla. Born in Havana, Cuba.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound cassette (Sound recording, analog)
label: Extent
content: 73 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1998 Mar. 18
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.garcia98
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Sound cassettes
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Enrique Guy Garcia conducted 1998 Mar. 18, by Juan A. Martinez, in Garcia's studio, Miami, Fla., for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Garcia discusses his early interest in drawing; enrolling in art school as a teenager in Santiago de Cuba; attending Havana's San Alejandro Art Academy and studying painting with Leopoldo Romanach and Domingo Ramos, and modeling for sculpture classes where his interest in sculpture developed; going to Mexico City upon graduation to study fresco painting; returning to Cuba and working in organizing craft workshops; becoming dissatisfied with the political situation in Cuba and accepting an UNESCO grant to study art in Italy; seeking political asylum on his return from Italy; living in New York and working in a foundry; moving to Miami in the mid-1970s; his sculpture, which is primarily bronzes; his abstract expressionist style; his series of works in the 1980s, "Head," and "Icarus"; his current work, "Columns"; and an upcoming exhibition in Venezuela.