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The colossal challenge of completing 2,014 consecutive days of Alla Prima Plein Air painting has been accomplished. For 5 years, 7 months, and 11 days, I painted daily; persevering through rain and snow, negative 20 to 100+ degrees, 30 stitches, broken bones, separated ribs, a couple of cases of the flu, multiple colds, family deaths and births. While thoughts of quitting or painting from inside crossed my mind, I never gave in. It was usually on those days I seemed to do his best work. The other challenges were to never get complacent or paint the same thing over again, as well as, to paint out of MY comfort zone, trying more complex subjects. Something I normally would not have done. Sometimes it worked out well, and other times it turned out to be a great learning experience. The experience of a lifetime.
Strong. Passionate. Vivid. Memorable.
To say the work of Ted Garcia captures these qualities would be to simplify this artist’s core gift. Through his bold use of color, texture and uninhibited brushwork, Ted Garcia’s printings capture on canvas the beauty and vitality of the passions of our lifes and leave you with the sense of “the moment.”
Garcia’s style grew out of commercial illustration mixed with a new-found joy for Russian impressionism after studying with the master Don Sahli, whose artistic roots can be traced back to the great master painter, Sergei Bongart. Garcia is committed to merging these two styles to create the bold and vivid paintings for which he is known.
Garcia finds the greater the passion, the more complex the painting and the greater the opportunity to develop an emotional crescendo. “Our lives are about passion. My work is an attempt to bring the height of our passions into our daily lives and to share it with others. In each piece or collection, I’m attempting to exhort passion from the gazer’s stare — to take him on the emotional journey that has crescendoed to the moment captured on canvas.”
Garcia lives along with his lovely wife and two wonderful children in Evergreen, Colorado. Living in the beautiful mountain town, whether painting en plein air and in his stunning studio “makes for a rough choice of what to paint, oh what a dilemma to have as an artist, too much to paint. Painting en plein air is the most rewarding for me. I love being outside, just me, my paint and brushes and the scene in front of me. All the while trying to capture it on canvas before it changes, what a thrill!”
“The project, and Ted’s work, exhibits a quality found in Marc Chagall, the Russian giant. There is a huge, energetic thrust in Ted’s personality and art – similar to the American composer Gottshalk, who once brought in 500 pianos to play simultaneously on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro in 1865. He, like Ted, wanted to created a massive artistic statement.
Ted’s work is so strong because it is spontaneous, not given to academic niceties, and he captures the scenes and moods that pass by our eyes each moment of daily life.
This ambitious undertaking will be powerfully received and applauded now, and in November, when the 365 x5 are all unveiled.”
– R. Campbell
2013 • Golden Triangle High Plein Air Art Festival Invitational, Denver, CO
2012 • Golden Triangle High Plein Air Art Festival Invitational, Denver, CO
2011 • Wyoming Plein Air Painting Event
2011 • Coos Bay Museum, Coos Bay, OR
2011 • Bikes and Chrome, Denver, CO
2011 • 100 for 100, Evergreen, CO
2011 • Golden Triangle High Plein Air Art Festival Invitational, Denver, CO
2011 • Paint, Sculpt, Shoot, Evergreen, CO
2010 • Plein Air Artist Colorado (PAAC), Members Show, Saks Gallery, Cherry Creek, CO
2010 • Wyoming Plein Air Event
2010 • Paint, Sculpt, Shoot, Invitational Plein Air Event, Evergreen, CO
2010 • Mountain Area Design Competition, First Place Winner, Evergreen, CO
2010 • Golden Triangle High Plein Air Art Festival Invitational, Denver, CO
2010 • One Man Show, Center Stage, Evergreen, CO
2010 • One Man Show, Plein Air 365 by Ted Garcia, Center for the Art, Evergreen, CO
2010 • 100 for 100 Invitational Art Auction, Evergreen, CO
2009 • Golden Triangle High Plein Air Art Festival Invitational, Denver, CO
2009 • Featured Artist, Leap of Faith, Ft. Collins, CO
2009 • Featured Artist, Frisco Fine Art, Frisco, CO
2009 • Featured Artist, Dillon Center for the Arts, Dillon, CO
2009 • One Man Show, Buchanan Center, Evergreen, CO
2009 • Channel 6 Art Auction
2009 • 100 for 100 Invitational Art Auction, Evergreen, CO
2009 • Calendar Winner, Paint, Sculpt, Shoot, Plein Air Event, Evergreen, CO
2009 • Invitational Miniature Show, Evergreen, CO
2009 • Featured Artist, JazzB Gallery, Denver, CO
2009 • One Man Show, Tastes Gallery, Denver, CO
2009 • Featured Artist, Namaste Gallery, Denver, CO
2008 • Featured Artist, Littleton Fine Art, Littleton, CO
2008 • Channel 6 Art Auction
2008 • Invitaional Holiday Art Show, Center for the Arts, Evergreen, CO
2008 • Featured Artist, Namaste Gallery, Denver, CO
2008 • Golden Triangle High Plein Air Art Festival Invitational, Denver, CO
2008 • Paint, Sculpt, Shoot, Invitational Plein Air Event, Evergreen, CO
2008 • 100 for 100 Invitational Art Auction, Evergreen, CO
2008 • Featured Artist, Wild Eye Gallery, Evergreen, CO
2008 • Featured Artist, Labyrinth Gallery, Santa Fe Art District
2008 • One Man Show, Center Stage, Evergreen, CO
2007 • Golden Triangle High Plein Air Art Festival Invitational, Denver, CO
2007 • Self Expressions Show, Evergreen Art Center January, 2007
2007 • Channel 6 Art Auction
2007 • Open Door Studio Tour, Evergreen, CO
2007 • Paint, Sculpt, Shoot, Invitational Plein Air Event, Evergreen, CO
2007 • RL Foster Gallery, Plein Air Artist of Colo. Miniature Show, Santa Fe Art District
2007 • Featured Artist, Labyrinth Gallery, Santa Fe Art District
2007 • Featured Artist, One Man Show, US Bank of Evergreen
2007 • 100 for 100 Invitational Art Auction
2007 • Evergreen Artist Association, Group Show, Evergreen National Bank
2007 • Holiday Art Show, Evergreen Art Center
2006 • Painting of Evergreen Invitational, A Plein-Air Event
2006 • Open Door Studio Tour, Evergreen, CO
2006 • 100 for 100 Invitational Art Auction
2006 • Holiday Art Show, Evergreen Art Center
2005 • Open Door Studio Tour, Evergreen, CO
2005 • Holiday Art Show, Evergreen Art Center
2004 • Don Sahli & a Beaujolais of Artists Invitational
2003 • K.D. Moore Gallery, Winter Miniature Show, Evergreen, CO
2003 • Evergreen Library One Man Show, Evergreen, CO
2002 • Melody of Art Gallery, Featured Artist, Coal Creek, CO
2002 • Windwood Gallery, Featured Artist, Minturn, CO
2013
- Quick Draw Winner
- Colorado Plein Air Event
2013
- 3rd Place Winner
- PAAC Paint-A-Thon
2011
- Artist Choice Award
- Wyoming Plein Air Event, Cheyenne, WY
2010
- Best of Show, National Competition
- Paint, Sculpt, Shoot, Evergreen, CO
2010
- 3rd Place Winner, National Competition
- Wyoming Plein Air Painting Event
2013
- Quick Draw Winner
- Colorado Plein Air Event
2013
- 3rd Place Winner
- PAAC Paint-A-Thon
2011
- Artist Choice Award
- Wyoming Plein Air Event, Cheyenne, WY
2010
- Best of Show, National Competition
- Paint, Sculpt, Shoot, Evergreen, CO
2010
- 3rd Place Winner, National Competition
- Wyoming Plein Air Painting Event
2010
- First Place Winner, Professional Division
- Mountain Area Design Competition
2010
- Cover Art Winner
- Mountain Connection
2009
- First Place Winner, National Competition
- Paint, Sculpt, Shoot, Evergreen, CO
2009
- First Place Calendar Winner
- 100 for 100, Evergreen, CO
2009
- Unveiling of Painting at NASA Space Museum
- “Lighting the Way to Freedom”
2009
- Honorable Mention, Evergreen Artists Association
- “Gone, But Not Forgotten”
2008
- 3rd Place Winner
- Paint, Sculpt, Shoot, Evergreen, CO
2007
- National Design Winner for VH1’s Save the Music
- Voted Best Design
2007
- Cover Art Contest Honorable Mention
- Mountain Connection, Artist Issue
2006
- Best of Show
- “Grape Sounds” Evergreen Artist Association
2006
- Cover Art Contest Honorable Mention
- Mountain Connection, Artist Issue
2006
- Ongoing • The Learning Channel/American Chopper Showing
- “Time to Reflect” Tribute to 911 and Orange County Chopper’s
- “Fire Bike” Thursday nights on TLC 10pm EST.
2005
- Winner of Discovery Channel’s Portrait Contest
- Mikey Teutul, Star of Orange County Choppers
- “Viewer’s Choice” Winner
2005
- Cover Art Contest Winner
- Mountain Connection, Artist Issue
2005
- Received Honorable Mention
- Fall “Edges” Show
2004
- KBCO Cover Art Finalist
- A Top 10 Winner
October, 2014
Plein Air Magazine- Outdoor Painter
“Parting Shot: Doing Justice to a Sculpture”
Written by Bob Bahr
August, 2014
PAAC Newsletter
Get to Know Our Members
By Tracy Haines
Member of the Month:
Ted Garcia
July, 2014
Plein Air Magazine- Outdoor Painter
“What Does 2,014 Days of Painting Outdoors Get You?”
Written by Bob Bahr
Press Release 7-9-14
“Ted Garcia’s Last Painting of 2,014 Consecutive Days of Painting”
April, 2014
Just Around Here
CAE’s 120 for $120 sees a Ted Garcia piece go first
Written by Staff Editor
February, 2014
Plein Air Magazine- Outdoor Painter
“Painting Outdoors 1,861 Days in a Row”
Written by Bob Bahr
September, 2013
Just Around Here
Flood Relief Brings Record Crowd
Written by Staff Writer
December, 2013
Plein Air Magazine- Outdoor Painter
“Parting Shot: Plein Air Christmas”
Written by Bob Bahr
Metro Denver Farmers’ Market
Illustration seen for over 18 years across Metro Denver in all print advertising. Various paintings, illustrations and offshoots for this industry have been commissioned.
January 2010
Canyon Courier
“Plein Air 365″
December 2009
Summit Daily News
“Plein Air 365”
October 2009
Mountain Connection
“Paint, Sculpt, Shoot”
August 2009
Mountain Connection
“Open Door Studio”
2007
VH1 held a nation-wide art contest for their Save the Music Foundation. Ted Garcia submitted and illustration that won by popular vote! The design will be printed onThe VH1 Save The Music Case Collection will include the following products:
• Action II Messenger
• Action Pro Backpack
• Horizontal Universal Cell Phone Case
• iPod Nano Flip
• iPod Video Flip
10% from the sales of these products through Pacific Design will be donated to the VH1 Save The Music Foundation
Ted Garcia’s art to be unveiled at NASA center
Mountain Connection August, 2008
“Lighting the Way to Freedom”
For complete story:
Downtowner – Featured Artist,
April/May 2008
Phosphorus Magazine – Featured Artist, Premier Issue,
September 2007
January, 2007
Canyon Courier
“Self Expressions Show”
Evergreen Art Center
Winner of Discovery Channel’s
Portrait Contest
Mikey Teutul, Star of Orange
County Choppers
“Viewer’s Choice” Winner 2005
Write up on Discovery Channel’s Website
Mountain Connection – Art Issue by Marilyn Innerfeld, “Ted Garcia Being Discovered”, June 2005
Canyon Courier – Arts & Culture Art View “Plein-Air Works Featured at Arts Center”, Oct. 2005
Canyon Courier – Art Speak with Ann Hopper Vickstrom
“Ted Garcia make fine art his goal”, Sept. 2004
December, 2013
CBS Denver, Channel 4
“Ted Painting at 9 Below Zero
Dave Aguilara
Seen on Discovery Channel/American Chopper Showing
“Time to Reflect” TRibute to 911 and Orange
July, 2014
Plein Air Magazine- Outdoor Painter
“What Does 2,014 Days of Painting Outdoors Get You?”
Written by Bob Bahr