Meet the Artist: David Ocelotl Garcia

David Ocelotl Garcia is a Colorado-based artist accomplished across several medias including painting, sculpture, and murals. His work can be seen in public art commissions, and in both museum and private collections. David discovered his natural ability and passion for fine art at the age of eleven. His early work consisted of life drawing and water-based sculpture, which he created at the Art Students League of Denver. By the age of eighteen, David was assisting professional muralists and sculptors of monumental bronze art. His own work now ranges from large-scale interior and exterior murals, painted directly on existing surfaces, panels, cloth, and canvas, as well as mosaic and sculpture. Through self-meditation and creative exploration, David has developed his own technique and philosophy on painting and sculpture that he has coined “Abstract Imaginism.” Abstract Imaginism is a style of art that combines the spontaneity and unpredictability of abstraction with the creativity and perception of imagination. David is most influenced by the movement of atomic energy and its effect on all living things. It is through art that David hopes to manifest beauty, inspiration, color, and energy.