>Young artist explores family roots with his craft
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
BY EILEEN LA FORGIA
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
“The majority of my recent work was inspired by a trip to my mother’s home country of Cuba,” said Nicolas Garcia White. “I learned about my heritage and met a large extension of my family that was lost to me until then. While in this isolated land I saw many incredible, contradictory, beautiful and heart-wrenching sights out in the country, in the jungles, in the complex city of Havana and in our family’s city of Santa Clara.”
His exhibit at the West Side Gallery, located at the West Side Presbyterian Church, 6 South Monroe St. in Ridgewood is taking place during the month of September. He described the exhibit as an explanation of techniques he learned this year.
Many of his oils are on wood panels: “Cobblestones of Cuba” shows a stone road between stucco buildings; “Nostalgic Roadways” features a really old car on a dirt road; “Revolutionary Countryside” is the Cuban landscape; “La Trinidad” shows the town from rooftops; and “Topes de Collantes” shows the lovely meadows and hills in the countryside. Other oils included: The Frog” and “Misu Misu” on wood panels; “Osprey” and “Oil and Bones” are oils on heavy paper.