Loyola-Garcia balances the abstract nature of her visual craft with frequent live performances she’s a popular singer and dancer with Alba Flamenca and Uptown Quartet and has appeared in several roles with Quantum Theatre. and in Mexico, Canada, Cuba, Europe, Asia, Africa and South America spanning topics as diverse as war survivors (“Flesh of the Fallen”), politicization of water (“Fragile”), immigration (“The Other Land/El Otro Lugar”), labor strife in El Salvador (“Untold Coffee Stories”), emotional intimacy (“Map of Love”), environmental crises (“Deliciously Disposable Earth”), purification and spirituality (“The Need to Wash the Self with Milk and Honey”), memory and retrospection (“Overlapping Memories”) and cultural heritage (“Sobre las Olas: A Story of Flamenco in the U.S.”). Over the last two decades her videos and installations have been featured at galleries and festivals across the U.S. Photo courtesy of Carolina Loyola-Garcia.įusing multiple art forms to examine questions of social justice has been her focus since coming to Pittsburgh in 1997 to earn an MFA at Carnegie Mellon University.
“Hands” is a series of photographs by Carolina Loyola-Garcia on display at Pittsburgh International Airport.
