Luisa Fernanda Garcia-Gomez, Artist Bio:

Luisa Fernanda Garcia-Gomez is a Minneapolis-based multidisciplinary artist whose work is a cathartic manifestation the violence she experienced during her youth growing up in Columbia during the years of conflict. Garcia-Gomez has an MFA from both the University of Paris 8 in Saint-Denis and from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has exhibited in both France and the United States. In this new series of drawings, “Impossible Landscapes,” Garcia-Gomez explores the feelings of loss and defeat as a natural state of being human. “Understanding that we cannot control every circumstance in our lives, we must learn to surrender, adapt and carry on, even when we do not know how,” Garcia-Gomez says. “That is why it is 'impossible,' because those places where we really let go don't exist yet and maybe never will exist.”