Rupert Garcia’s Unfinished Man relies on abstraction to capture the disorienting and jarring experience of a disillusioned soldier reintegrating into an American society roiling with anxiety. After serving in the Air Force during the Vietnam War, Garcia enrolled at San Francisco State College in 1966 to study art and sociology on the GI Bill. He initially focused on painting but, driven by his critical perspectives on the war and racial and economic inequality, eventually began a lifelong engagement with printmaking as a cheap and effective tool of protest after joining in the student strikes of 1968.
