Eamon Ore-Giron

Eamon Ore-Giron
Born
Eamon Ore-Giron

1973 (age 51–52)
Tucson, Arizona, US
Occupation(s)Painting, time-based media, DJ
Known forPaintings
Websitehttps://eamonoregiron.com/

Eamon Ore-Giron (born 1973) is an American visual artist based in Los Angeles, California. From 2004 to 2013, he was a member of the art collective OJO. He is a prolific artist who has exhibited at international venues, including the Whitney Biennial and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Biography

Eamon Ore-Giron was born 1973 in Tucson, Arizona, to Peruvian and Irish-American parents. He was raised in the southwestern United States and spent time in Spain, Peru and Mexico.[1] Ore-Giron's primary medium is painting, but he works with video and music as well. He performs as his alter-ego DJ Lengua who incorporates global modernism into his work. In 2005, he co-founded the art collective OJO with visual artists Joshua Aster, Justin Cole, Chris Avitabile, Moises Medina, and Brenna Youngblood. OJO created immersive exhibits and performance art which experimented with musical improvisation, electronics, and pushing the boundaries between viewer and performer. They disbanded in 2013. Recently[when?] his work has taken on a flat painting style of geometric abstraction. His artwork is neat and focuses on cultural cross-fertilization.[2] For the last decade, he has been losing the sight in his right eye, and attributes the change in his style to this vision issue.[3] In 2020, he was named to the Presidential Residency at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University.[4]

Education

Eamon Ore-Giron attended the San Francisco Art Institute and received his Bachelor's of Fine Arts in 1996.[5] He completed his graduate work at the University of California, Los Angeles where he received his MFA in 2006.[6]

Artwork

Much of Ore-Giron's work is influenced by indigenous traditions, Russian Suprematism, Native American medicine wheels, Mexican muralism, Amazonian tapestries, European modernism, and Latin American Concrete art.[7] He views his work as an outlet, in which he can show different realities of imagination and be able to reassess history.[1]

He is a founding member of OJO, an audio performance group. He is also known by his musician name, DJ Lengua and has gained success in releasing two vinyl covers with Unicornio Records. He music focuses on Latin American electronic beats.[8] Ore-Giron created a conceptual artwork inspired by Yaraví [es] music in 2013, titled E-D-G-B-D-G.It is composed of copper chimes that form a musical scale in the manner of an open tuning system.[9]

Ore-Giron has a series called Infinite Regress.[10] This series started in 2015 and has continued to grow since then. It currently consist of 130 paintings that depict a variety of geometric shapes.[3]

"Soft Power" is an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art that presented Eamon Ore-Giron "Infinite Regress LXXIV" painting. The painting demonstrated his unique and powerful use of color and shapes.[11]

Ore-Giron was in the Whitney Biennial, 2024, reimagines gods from ancient Peruvian and Mexican cultures in his Talking Shit series. That collection includes three paintings, "Talking shit with Amaru (Wari)"2023, "Talking Shit with my jaguar face" 2024, and "Talking shit with Viracocha's Rainbow (Iteration I) 2023. The series title Talking Shit reflects the artist's intention to explore this idea and a live ancestral past in a friendly, informal, and personal way.[12]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
Date Title Gallery/Venue Location Ref
2015 Morococha LAXART Los Angeles, US [13]
2013 Smuggling The Sun Nichelle Beauchene Gallery New York, US
2012 Open Tuning: E-D-G-B-D-G 18th Street Arts Canter Los Angeles, US [14]
2010 Road to Ruins Steve Turner Contemporary Los Angeles, US
2009 Into A Long Punk Steve Turner Contemporary Los Angeles, US
2006 Los Jaichackers MUCA ROMA Mexico City, Mexico
2005 Mirage Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art Philadelphia, USA
Group exhibitions
Date Title Gallery/Venue Location Ref
2019 Soft Power San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) San Francisco, US [11]
2018 Made in L.A. 2018 Hammer Museum Los Angeles, US [15]
2017 Figure Ground; Beyond the White Field Whitney Museum of American Art New York, US
2016 Painters NYC El Museo de los Pintores Oaxaquenos (MUPO) Oaxaca, Mexico
2015 Something Else Off Biennial Cairo, Egypt
2014 Notes For Now Prospect 3 New Orleans New Orleans, US
2013 Night Shade/ Solanaceae Perez Art Museum of Miami Miami, US
2012 Going Public- Telling it as it is? ENPAP Bilbao, Spain
2010 Lonarte Municipality of Calheta Madeira, Portugal
2010 Panorama: Los Angeles ARCO Madrid, Spain
2009 Engagement Party Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, US
2008 Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, The Museo Alameda, Phoenix Art Museum, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, El del Barrio Los Angeles, US

Texas, US

Mexico City, Mexico

New York, US

2006 Glitch LACMA Los Angeles, US
2005 Technical Breakdown Cinemateket Copenhagen, Denmark
2002 Bay Area Now 3 Yerba Buena Center For The Arts San Francisco, US
2001 Widely Unknown Deitch Projects New York, US
2024 Whitney Biennial, 2024: Even Better Than The Real Thing Whitney Museum of American Art New York, US [16]

Collections

Eamon Ore-Giron's work is in the permanent collection of UCLA Hammer Museum,[17] the Art in Embassies United States Consulate General Nuevo Laredo,[18] Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[19] Museum of Fine Arts in Boston,[20] Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,[21] San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,[22] and Pérez Art Museum Miami[23][24]

Honors and awards

Eamon Ore-Giron was awarded 2020-2021 Presidential Residency for the Future of the Arts.[25]

Publications

Eamon Ore-Giron created a book called Infinite Regress, that was published in March 2020 by Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite.[26] The book shows his series of Infinite Regress paintings and poetry from Edgar Garcia.[27]

References

  1. ^ a b "Eamon Ore-Giron: Our Renaissance will be a Collective Exaltation". Soleil Rouge Magazine. July 18, 2020. Retrieved 2021-03-19.
  2. ^ Johnson, Ken (2013-06-27). "Eamon Ore-Giron: 'Smuggling the Sun'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  3. ^ a b Boas, Natasha (6 August 2020). "The Sacred Synthesis of Eamon Ore-Giron | Frieze". Frieze. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  4. ^ "Eamon Ore-Giron Named to Presidential Residency at the Anderson Collection at Stanford University | Anderson Collection at Stanford University". Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  5. ^ "Eamon Ore- Giron" (PDF). Fleisher Ollman. Retrieved 2021-04-26.
  6. ^ Ore-Giron, Eamon (2017). "Smuggling the Sun". The Georgia Review. 71 (2): 299–312. ISSN 0016-8386. JSTOR 44820938.
  7. ^ "Bio". Eamon Ore-Giron. Retrieved 2021-05-30.
  8. ^ "Eamon Ore-Giron". iscp-nyc.org. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  9. ^ Lee, Nathaniel (2013). "Nicelle Beauchene Gallery". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2021-05-04.
  10. ^ "Smuggling the Sun – The Georgia Review". thegeorgiareview.com. Retrieved 2021-04-23.
  11. ^ a b Desmarais, Charles (October 24, 2019). "SFMOMA's 'Soft Power' displays the influence of art in the 21st century". Datebook | San Francisco Arts & Entertainment Guide. Retrieved 2021-04-28.
  12. ^ "Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing". whitney.org. Retrieved 2024-05-31.
  13. ^ "Eamon Ore-Giron – Bio". Páramo (in Mexican Spanish). 2019-11-12. Retrieved 2021-03-19.
  14. ^ "Ore-Giron, Open Tuning: E-D-G-B-D-G". 18th Street Arts Center. 2012-10-18. Retrieved 2021-05-30.
  15. ^ Stromberg, Matt (2018-06-04). "Resolutely Political LA Artists Focus on the Body in the City's Latest Biennial". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2021-07-18.
  16. ^ "Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing". whitney.org. Retrieved 2024-05-31.
  17. ^ "Eamon Ore-Giron". UCLA Hammer Art Museum. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  18. ^ "Eamon Ore-Giron". United States Art in Embassies Program. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  19. ^ "Sonidero Composition in Red". Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  20. ^ "MFA Boston Affirms Commitment to Contemporary Artists Amid Ongoing Closure". Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  21. ^ "Exist Strategy: Eamon Ore-Giron". Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. 28 December 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  22. ^ "Infinite Regress LXXXII: Eamon Ore-Giron". San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  23. ^ "Pérez Art Museum Miami Acquires Eight Artworks from Miami-Based Galleries for Permanent Collection". Pérez Art Museum Miami. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  24. ^ "Eamon Ore-Giron - Artists - James Cohan". origin.www.jamescohan.com. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
  25. ^ "Artist Eamon Ore-Giron in conversation with poet and scholar Edgar Garcia | Anderson Collection at Stanford University". Retrieved 2021-04-20.
  26. ^ Ore-Giron, Eamon (2020). Infinite Regress: Selected Works from the Infinite Regress Series. ISBN 978-3964360243.
  27. ^ "Eamon Ore-Giron : Infinite Regress - Les presses du réel (book)". www.lespressesdureel.com. Retrieved 2021-04-20.