Eamon Ore-Giron: Ziggurat \/ Zigurat\r\nJanuary 31 | April 3, 2020<\/h2>\r\n

Opening: Friday, January 31, 2020, 8:00 pm<\/h3>\r\n

P\u00e1ramo presents the exhibition\u00a0Ziggurat \/ Zigurat<\/i>, by Eamon Ore-Giron. A ziggurat is\u00a0a shrine or temple constructed as a terraced compound of successively receding levels.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

In his ongoing\u00a0Infinite Regress<\/em>\u00a0series, including the works presented in this exhibition, Eamon Ore-Giron (b. 1973, Tucson, USA) investigates the evocative potential of abstraction and brings historical and contemporary visualities into dialogue within a precise motif. This motif consists of a central golden geometric form with brightly hued spheres that appear to pass behind and through it. The paintings use shifts in space, color, and form to create optical play, evoking diagrams of the celestial and ancient architectures.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Several of the works in this new suite of paintings make literal reference to the stepped form of the ziggurat. Each painting in the exhibition functions as a shrine or a portal of sorts, drawing the viewer in and suggesting a liminal or transitional space and a notion of\u00a0axis mundi<\/em>\u2013\u2013a mythological concept representing the connection between heaven and earth.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

In Ore-Giron\u2019s own words, the Infinite Regress series is a \u201ccelebration of the emotional potential of abstraction to map the unseen topography of our inner lives and create a visual language that is both timeless and out of time\u201d.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

About the artist<\/h3>\r\n\r\n

Eamon Ore-Giron (b. 1973) was born in Tucson, Arizona, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Ore-Giron blends a wide range of visual styles and influences in his brightly colored abstract geometric paintings realized on raw linen and canvas.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

The artist grew up in the Southwestern United States and has spent significant time in Spain, Peru (where his father is from) and Mexico. Ore-Giron\u2019s travels, personal biography, and his formal education as a fine artist \u2014he received an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles\u2014 have shaped his artistic vocabulary, which references Native American medicine wheels, Amazonian tapestries, the Mexican muralists, Russian Suprematism, and Latin American Concrete Art, as well as hard-edged abstraction and European modernism.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Ore-Giron also works in video and music, as part of collaborative endeavors and as a musician and DJ. He is keenly aware of the history and cross-cultural evolution of musical styles. In a similar vein, his work makes manifest a history of the transnational exchange that has informed painting.\u00a0He has said that his work \u201coriginates from a certain nostalgia for a global modernism\u201d and the notion of a universal visual language. With his comprehensive approach, which marries Latin American aesthetics and indigenous craft and folk traditions with a 20th-century avant-garde, Ore-Giron creates a unique artistic style that feels at once timeless and contemporary and resonates across cultural contexts.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Solo exhibitions have been presented at LAXART, Los Angeles (2015); Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York (2013); P\u00e9rez Art Museum Miami (2013); MUCA ROMA, Mexico City (2006); Queen\u2019s Nails Annex, San Francisco (2005); and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (2005). Ore-Giron\u2019s work has been included in group shows at the SFMOMA, San Francisco; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Prospect.3, New Orleans; and Deitch Projects, New York.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

His work has been covered in\u00a0The New York Times,\u00a0The Los Angeles Times,\u00a0ArtForum,\u00a0ANP Quarterly,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0SFAQ<\/em>, among other publications.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

P\u00e1ramo would like to extend its gratitude to Tequila 1800 and UBS for their collaborative support.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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