#eamonoregiron

[mtaartsdesign]

Eamon Ore-Giron visualizes the world as abstract forms and shapes, and envisions the interaction and interplay of these shapes as a reflection of societal dynamics. This exchange between forms and Ore-Giron’s use of geometries symbolizes the ways in which people of different communities — such as those surrounding Bay Pkwy (N) station, home to his #MTAarts mosaic artwork "People’s Instinctive Travels: Homage to the Tribe" — negotiate their relationships with each other and new places, a process of reinvention and creation.

On view through May 22, visitors to the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA Denver) can see the progression of Ore-Giron’s paintings since 2002 in “Eamon Ore-Giron: Competing with Lightning / Rivalizando con el relámpago,” which focuses more closely on Ore-Giron’s recent works that expand and complicate the centuries-long history of geometric abstraction from ancient Andean cultures to 20th century modernism.

[mtaartsdesign]

If you are heading towards Coney Island this weekend on the N train, hop off the train at Bay Pkwy to experience the colorful abstractions in Eamon Ore-Giron’s “People’s Instinctive Travels: Homage to The Tribe” (2018).  The mosaics echo grand modernist structures and art from another era, yet here are accessible in scale and fit within the station architecture and the surrounding community.

[mtaartsdesign]

Eamon Ore-Giron’s expansive mosaic project, “People’s Instinctive Travels: Homage to The Tribe” at the Bay Parkway (N) station in Brooklyn, visualizes the world as abstract forms and shapes and their interplay as a reflection of the ways in which people of different communities – such as those surrounding the Bay Pkwy station – negotiate their relationships with each other and new places, a process of reinvention and creation. Mosaic fabricator Mosaicos Venezianos de México translated Ore-Giron’s six oil on linen paintings into twenty-four glass mosaic panels. The northbound platform mosaics mimic the movement of gears and the mechanics of the human-made world, conjuring feelings of New York’s ecstatic urban environment. People’s Instinctive Travels: Homage to The Tribe originates from Eamon Ore-Giron’s “certain nostalgia for global modernism,” wherein “public works meant to create a kind of civic mindedness and unity.” It is Ore-Giron’s hope that these mosaics will offer subway riders a space to see the world anew through the shapes, forms, colors, and movements of these artworks.

[maryelisechavez]

💘 An incredible show @mca_denver ~ EAMON ORE-GIRON: COMPETING WITH LIGHTNING ~ @lengua ⚡️ Referencing indigenous & craft traditions as well as 20th-century avant-gardes, his paintings move between temporalities and resonate across cultural contexts. #eamonoregiron (at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd4MYiIsEVZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[18thstreetarts]

Eamon Ore-Giron Residency: September 24 – December 14, 2012 Exhibition: Open Tuning: E-D-G-B-D-G

Referencing the alternate guitar tuning scale E-D-G-B-D-G unique to the Central Andes, Ore-Giron likens this hybrid indigenous and Spanish musical scale with the merger of folk, pop, historical and conceptual references throughout his interdisciplinary artworks. A complex interplay between themes of tourism, revolution, design, and public sculpture reverberate within the works, while formal questions regarding the relationship between functional sculpture and introspective form are explored.

Photo by Gina Osterloh

[18thstreetarts]

Eamon Ore-Giron Residency: September 24 – December 14, 2012 Exhibition: Open Tuning: E-D-G-B-D-G

Photo by Gina Osterloh