Eliseo Garcia

Eliseo is an accomplished multi-media sculptor with extensive experience in private, commercial, and site-specific public art sculpture utilizing traditional natural stone, steel, and cast bronze creations. His project approach focuses on intensive research and open communications with design teams and committee members on defining the visions and goals of the project. His natural stone bas-relief wall murals, and three dimensional single or multiple piece stand-alone sculptures are valued for their visual impact, innovative free flowing designs, substance, and relevance to theme content.

Eliseo is a native of Dallas, TX, graduated from North Dallas High School, served in Viet Nam and obtained his Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from the University of North Texas. He began his career in the graphics and arts departments of the corporate arena, and at the age of 45 set out on his own to fulfill his life-long dream of being a sculptor.

He has expertise in both indoor and outdoor public art sculpture and has the professional capability to work in multiple styles, i.e. representational, abstract, and contemporary, using a variety of design and sculptural elements in creating his final art forms. He possesses a special ability to personalize specific narratives through his designs by using recognizable imagery and/or dramatic interplay of abstracted shapes, textures and lighting to make expressive symbolic references to thematic objectives.

Eliseo’s creations can be appreciated throughout the Dallas metroplex, both in public art as well as in various private collections, and extend internationally to Japan and the Virgin Islands. He has been awarded the Texas State Visual Artist Award 2009, North Dallas High School Distinguished Alumni Award 2015, the Dallas Historical Society AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN COMMUNITY SERVICE in the category of Creative Arts 2016, and presented a key to the City of Farmers Branch by Mayor Tim O’Hare. Mayor O’Hare declared that day “Eliseo Garcia Day.”

Eliseo shares his talents by demonstrating to various groups the art of sculpting and answering questions about being a sculptor and artist. He also teaches veterans painting and sculpture a method of therapy and healing.

At an early age I was always fascinated in discovering suggestive patterns, shapes, and figurative elements in nature’s palette of Art. I could always draw or make things pretty accurate but I enjoyed my artwork more when I used my imagination and exaggerated the subject matter in a more stylized, tactile, and expressive manner. In my college years, after my tour in Viet Nam, I fully appreciated my art history courses. Paleolithic cave art, Primitive, Medieval, Greek, Renaissance, and Meso-American art were inspirational in motivating me to become a full time artist.

Inspired by passion, vision and aspirations of my own personal and commissioned public art projects I give deep thought to the many possibilities of achieving objective artistic vision. Respect, honor, and relevance to thematic projects is foremost and always is my goal. My diverse artistic styles and subject matter give me the ability to work with various mediums. I am known for expressing a variety of narratives and genres by incorporating both recognizable imagery and abstract forms into a dramatic interplay of multiple shapes, implied movement, variety of textures, and lighting, adding a dimension of diversity to my works of art.

Eliseo

Sculptor

214.403.4388

sculptoreliseo@hotmail.com

MILITARY SERVICE

U.S. Army – Vietnam Veteran

EDUCATION

BFA, North Texas State University, 1973

SPECIAL RECOGNITION

Texas State Visual Artist   2009

North Dallas High School Distinguished Alumni Award 2015

Dallas Historical Society for Outstanding Contributions in Creative Arts 2016

PUBLIC/PRIVATE COMMISSIONS

City of San Marcos Sculpture Garden, San Marcos, TX - "Primeval"  2022

Oak Cliff Government Center, Oak Cliff, TX – 12 carved limestone relief panels 2022

West Dallas Veteran’s Memorial, Dallas TX TBD

Highland Park Presbyterian Church, Dallas TX - "Menagerie" 2020

Hampton Inn Park, Addison TX – "Arcadia" 2019

Spruill Park, Addison, TX – "Let’s Play!" 2017

Hall Arts, Arts District, Dallas, TX – "Texas Touch"  2015

Home Town Community, North Richland Hills - "Eternal Love"  2015

West Haven Community, Coppell, TX- "Gyrations" and "Ancient Artifact" 2015

Echo Apartments, Dallas, TX, The NPR Group LLC 2014

Federal Reserve Bank Fine Art Collection, "Abrazo" and "Life Force" 2014

Newman Village, Frisco, TX Commission 2013

Avant Lofts, Dallas Design District Public Art Commission 2013

Hopkins County Veteran’s Memorial in Sulphur Springs, TX 2012

City of Dallas - Sammons Center for the Arts   2012

St. Philips Episcopal, Frisco, TX - Church High Cross 2011

First Tee, Ft. Worth, TX - Ben Hogan Murals 2011

Newman Village Frisco, TX– Sculpture Garden 2010

City of Fort Worth - Tanglewood Community 2010

CLB Partners - 2 Metal Sculptures and 1 Stone Sculpture 2009

Children’s Hospital of Dallas - Garden Bas-Relief Stone Panels 2009

Japan-America Society - Texas Stone Sculpture, Sendai Japan 2007

City of Dallas - Fire Station # 35 2006

City of Frisco - Recreation /Athletic Center 2005

City of Dallas - Arcadia Park Library Architectural Frieze 2005

City of North Richland Hills - Tommy and Sue Brown City Park 2005

City of North Richland Hills - Fire Station #1 2005

City of Irving - Storey Road project, “Jubilation” 2001

City of Irving - "The Joyful Graces" 2001

Hall Financial Group - "Maternal Caress" 2001

Parkland Hospital - Three Bas Relief Family Series Panels 2000

DART Westmoreland Station, Oak Cliff, TX - "Cycles of Life" 1995