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Robert E. McCoy Architectural Interpretive Center
Saturday – August 8, 4-5 PM

Expressing harmony, balance and interconnectedness, Janel Garza’s beautiful paintings, textiles and murals invite visual exploration. Beyond the surface of her fascinating compositions of shapes, colors and lines, she interprets the geometric underpinnings of the natural world and abstractly reveals the complexities of humanity. Highly ordered and symmetrical, her work also incorporates physical, ecological and therapeutic traits from her studies of the environment and medicinal plants.

Janel’s approach to design parallels Frank Lloyd Wright’s philosophy of Organic Architecture. Wright’s buildings were abstractions of nature, and as such they were in harmony with the natural world and the human spirit, fostering connection and well-being. Wright unified the elements of his designs according to geometry, the universal language at the foundation of all living forms. Geometry also defines the structure of space, motion and time.

Janel Garza is a native Arizona artist who will give an Artist’s Talk on Saturday, August 8th from 4-5 PM at the Robert E. McCoy Architectural Interpretive Center. The program is open to the public and made possible by Art Farm Iowa.