Artist Talk / Performance / Book Release: Bored of Necessity by Anthony Michael Garcia

Exhibit: On Display at the MACC through October 3, 2026
Event: Artist talk, performance and book release: Oct 3, 2026, 2-4 p.m.

Bored of Necessity: 30 Years of Practicing, the first major survey exhibition spanning thirty years of work by interdisciplinary artist Michael Anthony García at the ESB-MACC

Bringing together sculpture, installation, performance, photography, video, and archival materials, the exhibition traces an evolving practice rooted in experimentation, persistence, and an unwavering commitment to making art as a way of understanding the world.

The exhibition's title, Bored of Necessity, speaks to the paradox at the center of García's career. Art began as a necessity, a means of survival, self-definition, and questioning, but over decades of repetition, discipline, and relentless making, necessity itself became something to challenge. Rather than settling into certainty, García has consistently reinvented his practice, allowing curiosity, humor, vulnerability, and risk to guide each new body of work.

For more than three decades, García has examined identity, mortality, labor, queerness, Latinidad, memory, consumer culture, and the fragile relationship between the body and the objects it leaves behind. Clothing, one of the artist's most recognizable materials, appears throughout the exhibition as both sculpture and surrogate: an absent body carrying the traces of lived experience. Across diverse media, García transforms ordinary materials into poetic investigations of presence and absence, intimacy and spectacle, permanence and decay.