Black, White, and Colored Again

Welcome to my collection, My name is Melary Alcazar Garcia and I created two different collections of works inspired by my culture. During my years at Delta, I was part of the Puente program where I took various classes including a Mexican-American class where I learned about my heritage. The class focused on the struggles my ancestors had to go through along with the passion for our culture, and the fight people before me had to take so I could be where I am today. Since then, my art has been solely dedicated and derived from the warriors who won the war to make their dreams into a reality. Starting with my first collection, I created a series of realism portraits made with graphite pencils and colored with oil pastels on an acrylic background on a wood canvas. This series of works is titled “Black, White, and Colored Again” to commemorate the people whose beliefs were so strong that they made them real. The people in the portraits include the brown berets, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, the Zoot Suits, and the people today fighting our current world problems. As for my second set of works, they are a celebration of our culture and history to remind us of the power and passion that we derive from. It is a painting of acrylic on canvas and the pair is titled “La Historia Trasciende más allá de La Muerte” and inspired by the legend “La Leyenda de la Mujer Dormida”; Where two star-crossed lovers were separated by war, class ranks, and then death. The portraits not only show them side by side, but they also show their passion and longing for each other, even after death. Both pieces of work were not only derived from my passion for my roots, but also out of awareness for the injustices currently happening across our nation.