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Fables without Morals
Erik Jerezano
2/6/2007 - 2/25/2007
G+ GALLERIES
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, February 09, 2007 - 6-9 pm |
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The work of Erik Jerezano lives in a world where the eye is constantly deceiving us yet does so apologetically, where the naivety of the pen and simplicity of paper is taken with grave seriousness, and where little ducks superimposed over lions stop and ask for directions. The indescribable softness of the (often) ironic reflexivity of his work binds together the two places where he has been shaped the most culturally: Mexico City and Toronto.
Jerezano is concerned with creating landscapes of fauna that disguise themselves as one thing, but prove to be something else - beasts that are not-quite-what-they-seem. By the integral use of text combined with childlike imagery, his art strives to take the viewer into a place where the subconscious has a moment to breath in the world outside of dreams. The vulnerability of his work immediately allows a letting go, while recapitulating the experiences of movement and otherness. His drawings centre on viewer participation, to produce an aesthetic that allows the public an opportunity to respond intuitively and reconfigure the idea of what it means to be an informed participant.
Currently, Erik finds himself working within small to medium sized formats, which retain a primarily monochromatic feel. By adding thin layers of neutral colors using acrylic paint, chinese ink, charcoal and pencil, he opens up the paper to a sense of space, which in turn aids his desire to compose drawings indicating a certain weightlessness.
Erik Jerezano was born in Mexico City in 1973. He is a self-taught artist and graphic designer who arrived to Toronto in 2001. Since then he has exhibited his work at John B. Aird Gallery, Harbourfront Centre and Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, among others. In 2005, he was awarded a Toronto Arts Council Emerging Artist grant and his work was selected by the Drawing Center Viewing program in New York.
In the past, he was involved in community arts projects in Mexico City, where he collaborated on outdoor murals. In 2004, he and two other artists created Z'otz* Collective (Nahum Flores, Erik Jerezano, Ilyana Martinez). The artists meet weekly to collaborate on multi-media works that include drawing, painting, collage, portable sculpture and the written word. |
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G+ GALLERIES
50 Gladstone Avenue
Toronto, M6J 3K6 Ontario
Gallery Hours: 1-6 pm (Tuesday to Sunday)
416.535.6957
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