A selection of 68 works (mostly oil on canvas) that span five decades of constant artistic creation, organized in seven areas or sections: Plural, Ancestral, Singular, The horizon, Polyphony, Resonance, and Accents; García’s many lines of work are shown, from the monochrome to human groups or even clearly marked thematic accents as well as the use of color.

Rosa Idalia García was born in 1944 in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. She is a visual artist, cultural manager, visual arts teacher and founder of Casa de Arte, an institution in the city of Santiago. She studied at the School of Fine Arts in Santiago and at the Yoryi Morel’s workshop.

Since 1968 she has been part of numerous individual and collective exhibitions. Some of them are Nueva Imagen: doce artistas de vanguardia at the Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra in Santiago; A first retrospective solo exhibition at the Rosa María Art Gallery in Santo Domingo; Mujer y Arte Dominicano Hoy at Casa de Bastidas in Santo Domingo; Rosa Idalia García: señora del arte at Casa de Arte, Santiago.

Approaching the production of Rosa Idalia García allows us to go into a body of work that transformed the craft of painting to a unit of meaning in itself. The work of life that delves into the personal and the local to convey broad and complex experiences from the peculiarity of her creative personality.