Welcome to Rosa Naday Garmendia's web site. This is a collection of the work from 2007 to the present and will be updated periodically.

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If you would like to see her work you can visit her at her studio at ARTCENTER/ SOUTHFLORIDA
924 Lincoln Road - Studio 101, Miami Beach, FL 33139.
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naday63@hotmail.com
305 606 9241

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As visual artist, I am interested in such themes as migration, uprooting, human identity, impermanence and the values we share and/or differ as a society. The consequences of migration and displacement at an early age are the single most determining events that have shaped my identity and compelled me to become an artist. I use the visual arts as a vehicle to stimulate ideas, provoke thought, and confront commonly accepted attitudes. My works are points of departure, rather than destinations.

In the last seven months I have produced two bodies of work that address a language we all share: The universal language of Drawing as the central theme.

Trained as a painter, I have not painted in many years; graphite, charcoal, markers and paper are my favorite materials. I like the raw, directs and primal emotions that marks, scribbles, and drawings elicit. My favorite tools are my hands.
In these two series “Fragmented Conversations……….en azul” and Shapes in Conversation, from the Shared Language series, I am exploring through my artistic practice, the communicative nature of drawings in relation to different levels of meaning.
Definition of language: “Any symbol, through which perceptions, thoughts, and feelings can be articulated, expressed and communicated.” All language is a balanced interaction of conscious and preconscious mental activities.

In my current work I select from an assorted collection of papers I continuously gather. These have marks that range from scribbles, to sketches to fully developed drawings. Some of the drawings that I make are derived from conversational interaction and specific daily experiences but do not depend wholly upon the context or nature of that interaction, most are mine but I also appropriate, friends and kids drawings.

The journey from conception to actual process stimulates and challenges me. I find excitement in the process of composing…..creating relationships, through the use of tension, form, space, color, planes, lines. They become through their own process a conversation in themselves - they become part of a general dialogue, a text, a visual language that is constantly changing, becoming in parts obsolete and renewing itself over and over again.
Subjectivity is inherent in any interpretation of an aesthetic object. The fundamental thing that a drawing communicates therefore, through its visual language, is feeling.

A secondary aspect of these works is that they have evolved into 3-dimensional drawings. I am also concerned about the wastefulness in our society and that leads me to instinctively look at the many things people and society as a whole discard. Since 2007 I have been using discarded materials as a component of my work. In “Shapes in Conversation, from the Shared Language series” I am also exploring how the object protruding creates the negative or positive space in the context of the universal language of Drawing.

I think artist are a type of transmission belt within society, a particular type of sociologist or historian. As an artist, the events and experiences that play out during my lifetime manifest themselves in my creations. Although these are universal experiences the forms or visual languages I use are very personal and the finished product emerges from living life itself. I hope that the viewer will become engaged in the work bringing to it their own experience, history and associations.