Fidel García’s Otherworldly Figures Swirl Into Being

The familiar and the fantastic collide vibrantly in the work of Fidel García. The painter fuses the visceral and the ethereal, juxtaposing the human body, photorealistically rendered, with colorful abstract expressionist forms. Sometimes, his nude figures—usually women, at times winged—melt from bold washes of color. Other times, they seem to square off against them in a spectacular ballet of light and shadow. Several of his works even incorporate yet another dichotomy, betwee