Bio

France Garrido is best known for her highly detailed and intricate mixed media/collage works that exemplify the Visionary & Surrealist genre. Born in NYC & now living and working in Weehawken, NJ.

Her work incorporates sacred geometry, specifically the circle and the square, developing her own visual language. 

As a young girl she visited The Met, NYC, where she witnessed Dali’s ‘The Crucifixion’.  This painting had a profound influence on her.  She was transfixed; standing in front of this painting cemented in her a desire to be an artist and she felt that she was standing in front of the most incredible painting ever created! 

In 1983 she received a private grant to study the Mexican Mural Masterpieces in Mexico City, Cuernavaca and Taxco, which greatly influenced her art making, there she was introduced to Siqueiros, Kahlo, Rivera, Camerena et al. Simultaneously she began her deep exploration into collage, which grew into a lifelong passion. 

In 2000, she co-founded & co-directed the Collage/Assemblage Society, NYC and became, Master Collagist Jonathan Talbot’s, studio assistant.  She has consistently developed her own unique style of mixed media/collage, utilizing appropriated, self-generated and manipulated images along with objects, papers and a host of other elements.  Hoch, Dali, Schiele, cultures, nature and life have and continue to inspire her. 

Her work has been exhibited nationally & internationally as well as in Beijing at the UN Conference on Women.  In 2009 she was selected for inclusion in ‘Lexicon der Phantastischen Kunstler’, authored by Gerhard Habarta, internationally known historian on Surreal, Visionary, Symbolic & Fantastic Art.