BENJAMIN GARCIA

Benjamin Garcia was born in 1986 in the city of Caracas, Venezuela. At age 19 he decides to study design and illustration at the Instituto de diseño de Caracas, graduating in 2010. His first influences came from comic artists like Moebius and Bill Sienkiewicz.
Eventually, he made the transition from illustrating for animation to painting when he discovered the work of artists such as Lucian Freud, Jenny Saville and Kent Williams. His paintings focus  mostly on portraits with an aesthetic language that is both dark and subtly surreal with an approach to his subjectsfrom a personal view.