Isabella Marie Garcia

Miami

Freelance Writer and Photographer at Freelance

freelance writer & film photographer | bylines: @theartnewspaper @miaminewtimes @burnawayga @ff2_media | she + her + ella

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Articles

In the Studio with Tim Short

1 week ago | burnaway.org | Isabella Marie Garcia

In his home studio in Stone Mountain, Georgia, narrative painter Tim Short’s distinctive practice centered on oil paintings offers an exploration of Black identity through imaginative, atmospheric art styles. His series For Da Folks exemplifies this approach, transforming intimate family moments into narratives imbued with cosmological and celestial imagery.
Bryan Castro: to stutter / to atomize / to interrupt

2 weeks ago | burnaway.org | Isabella Marie Garcia

Looking at a painting with words on it and mumbling them under your breath, just to taste the text and learn how it feels in the space beyond the surface of the work.
Hoa Tay (Flower Hands) at the Ogden Museum

1 month ago | burnaway.org | Isabella Marie Garcia

ADVERTISEMENTOgden Museum of Southern Art commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon with Hoa Tay (Flower Hands), an exhibition which centers emerging and established Vietnamese-American artists working throughout the American South. Opening March 15, 2025, Hoa Tay showcases twelve artists who use diverse media and styles to forge their own distinctive vision, conveying narratives of the Vietnamese Diaspora, both personal and universal.
In the Studio with Honey Pierre

1 month ago | burnaway.org | Isabella Marie Garcia

In her Atlanta studio, Honey Pierre creates richly textured portraits that center Black and Brown life in moments of softness, joy, and everyday intimacy. Using punch needle embroidery as her primary medium, Pierre weaves color, texture, and symbolism into scenes that reclaim rest and emotional presence as acts of quiet resistance. Working largely in vivid shades of blue, she reimagines the body as expansive, liberated, and beautifully whole.
Jayne County’s Electric Dreams at Emory University

2 months ago | burnaway.org | Isabella Marie Garcia

Jayne County is an artist whose biography is so substantial, it threatens to speak over her actual work as a performer, musician, and painter. Her paintings have received newfound acclaim after being exhibited in New York City and Lexington, Kentucky, the latter show organized by Daniel Fuller at Institute 193.
Lean-To by John Paul Kesling at Lowe Mill, Huntsville

2 months ago | burnaway.org | Isabella Marie Garcia

In John Paul Kesling’s show, Lean-To, currently on display at Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment in Huntsville, the artist creates paintings that are greater than the sum of their parts. Like the namesake structure, Kesling’s works bring new life to abandoned items, creating something new, both in subject and material. ADVERTISEMENTKesling distorts and disarticulates the human body to a moving effect in many of his pieces.
Burnaway Announces Open Call Collaboration with CCCADI

Mar 27, 2025 | burnaway.org | Isabella Marie Garcia

Burnaway and the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) are pleased to announce our new collaboration: Care in Precarity, an open call for Caribbean writers to reflect on practices of care in the context of climate-based instability and crisis.
Call for Artists: March 2025

Mar 2, 2025 | burnaway.org | Isabella Marie Garcia

Artlab Editorial FellowshipDeadline: March 3, 2025ADVERTISEMENTThe Artlab Editorial Fellowship seeks two art writers whose forward-thinking insights bridge cultural communities and spark meaningful dialogue.
Arsimmer McCoy and The Carol City Museum

Feb 10, 2025 | burnaway.org | Isabella Marie Garcia

A museum is a home. Clean, pristine walls bear the marks of makers spanning generations as one walks across with precarity. Across the interior of what museums can house, intimate archives of artists are important and pressing in the digital age, a world that can be easily manipulated through selectively altering and deleting files with the simple click of a mouse.
Call for Artists: February 2025

Feb 1, 2025 | burnaway.org | Isabella Marie Garcia

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft ResidencyHouston, TexasDeadline: February 1, 2025ADVERTISEMENTThe Houston Center for Contemporary Craft residency program supports emerging, mid-career, and established artists working in craft media, including clay, fiber, glass, metal, wood, and mixed media. Residents receive a monthly stipend, studio space, professional development opportunities, and chances to engage with the public through exhibitions, artist talks, and community outreach.