Garza, Janel Oil On Canvas “Manipulation Metal”

$4,800.00

Janel Garza

Each piece is oil on canvas, framed in wood. Garza builds her compositions from mirrored, geometric forms — precise lines and interlocking shapes that give the work a sense of structure and balance rather than a stated narrative. The palette shifts from piece to piece, but the underlying logic of symmetry and repetition stays constant throughout her work.

Title: “Manipulating Metal”

Medium: Oil on canvas in a wood frame

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Janel Garza — Geometric Painter & Muralist | Faust Gallery

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Janel Garza

Painter & Muralist · Phoenix, Arizona

b. 1987, Mesa, Arizona  ·  Lives and works in Phoenix

Phoenix artist Janel Garza

Janel Garza

Janel Garza is a Phoenix painter, designer, and muralist whose work turns the Sonoran Desert into pure geometry. Born in 1987 and raised in Mesa, Arizona, she grew up with paint, clay, and drawing close at hand—her mother taught elementary school art, and made sure her daughter tried every medium in the room.

Before she committed to art, Garza studied plants. She spent a year in ethnobotany at Northern Arizona University and trained in Western herbalism at the Southwest Institute of Healing Arts in Tempe. After moving to downtown Phoenix in 2012, she began with botanical illustrations for textbooks, and the plants never left her work.

Her paintings are built from ordered, symmetrical compositions of line, shape, and color. The desert, medicinal plants, and modernist architecture set the vocabulary, and the work is often compared to the drawings of Frank Lloyd Wright.

She also makes hand-dyed textiles, colored with onion skins, avocado, black beans, and turmeric.

Manipulating Metal, oil on canvas by Janel Garza

Manipulating Metal, oil on canvas

Garza's public work reaches well beyond the studio. In 2018 she painted Environ, the courtyard mural at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, set beside James Turrell's Knight Rise skyspace. Her murals appear in businesses, offices, and homes across Phoenix, and To Perceive Together—an 18-by-6-foot mobile mural made for the Phoenix Art Museum's Art d'Core Gala—is now permanently installed at Art Farm Iowa.

  • 2026 Artist's Talk, Robert E. McCoy Architectural Interpretive Center, Mason City, Iowa (presented by Art Farm Iowa)
  • 2018 Environ, courtyard mural, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA)
  •   To Perceive Together, mobile mural, Art d'Core Gala, Phoenix Art Museum · permanent collection, Art Farm Iowa, Northwood
  •   Interwoven, solo exhibition, Phoenix
  •   Murals for businesses, offices, and private residences across Phoenix

Faust Gallery is proud to represent the work of Janel Garza, whose paintings find the order beneath the desert—pattern, symmetry, and balance drawn from the land and the plants that grow on it.

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