Support the MJM&AG’s limited edition print fundraiser by purchasing a photograph by Saskatchewan artist, Gabriela García-Luna!

Gabriela García-Luna

Breeze

photograph, archival ink on paper

10 x 10 inches, unframed

2021

$110.00 (shipping costs may apply for online orders)

Limited edition of 100 prints; signed by the artist

Printed by Rebecca La Marre, PAVED Arts

Purchases can be made through our online gift shop or in person at the gallery.

All proceeds contribute to our campaign to purchase Peggy by Joe Fafard, a bronze horse sculpture as a public artwork for the City of Moose Jaw.

Thank you to Gabriela García-Luna, Slate Fine Art Gallery, and Emerald Custom Creations for supporting this project.

*Shipping expenses may apply

ABOUT THE WORK:

Gabriela García-Luna’s Breeze, which is part of the Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery’s Permanent Collection, has been recreated on a smaller scale as a limited edition series to be shared with the broader community and raise funds to contribute to our ongoing campaign to purchase Joe Fafard’s large-scale sculpture, Peggy, as a public artwork for the City of Moose Jaw. From a recent series of works, Breeze is a beautiful example of García-Luna’s exploration in digitally altered, photographic images of the connection between nature and artifice as a reflection of human existence and experience. Through her digital process, the artist creates complex abstracted layers, selected from various documented, intimate landscapes and results in elegant traces of organic forms that present like drawings. García-Luna’s works raise questions about our ways of perceiving the physical and non-physical spaces that we inhabit.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Gabriela García-Luna is a photo-based artist born in Mexico City, living in Canada in Moose Jaw and now Saskatoon, where she completed an MFA at the University of Saskatchewan in 2020. García-Luna’s work explores the paradoxical possibilities inherent to photography; showing the seen and revealing the unseen. Her work takes place where the lines between apparent documented reality and imaginary abstractions meet.

Since 1999, García-Luna has experimented using photography in her work in a wide range of forms. Her photographic, photo-based and installation work are the result of the subjects chosen by her transitory personal experiences in combination with her constant enquiry about the nature of perception and concepts of reality. Her instinctive and refined appreciation of the photographic images in her work elicits a hybrid visual language in constant evolution.

Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Mexico, Canada and India: Summa, Museo del Carmen, Mexico City (2003), Vulnerables, Galería Arte Alterno, Oaxaca, Mexico (2004), Speak/Memory, Moose Jaw Museum & Art Gallery, Moose Jaw, Canada (2009), MIND THE GAP! Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada & Art Gallery of Ottawa, Canada (2010-12), Pensive Space, MJM&AG, Canada (2014), Whitescapes, Estevan Art Gallery, Canada (2015), Talking with Walls, Kashi Art Gallery, India (2015) and Traces, Gordon Snelgrove Gallery at the University of Saskatchewan (2020).

García-Luna has received several prizes and awards such as First Prize in Photography in the Guadalajara Omnilife Grand Prize 2001, Mexico and in 2002 the First Prize in Photography in the Querétaro Libertad Third Art Contest, Mexico. In 2003 García-Luna received a photographic project grant for The Banff Centre, through FONCA (National Foundation for Culture and Art Fellowship – Mexico) and in 2007 was the recipient of an Artist in Residency grant at La Chambre Blanche, Quebec City, through FONCA/CALQ (Conseil des Arts et Lettres du Quebec), to realize an installation work. In 2010 she received an Independent Artist Grant from SK Arts to realize a photo-based project, and in 2011 was the recipient of a grant through FONCA, Mexico and The Banff Centre, Canada to develop a photographic project at The Banff Centre.

Her work is part of OMNILIFE Collection and Gobierno del Estado de Querétaro, Mexico, Moose Jaw Museum and Art Gallery, among others.