About Ezra Bejar
Ezra's paintings are multidimensional. His art touches on science and unexplored forms in nature and in urban environments. Ephemeral images that exist at the intersection of science, art and culture, the physical and the digital. In this context, he reformulates visually what we think are "real" stories, forms and spaces.
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Las pinturas de Ezra son multidimensionales. Sus obras de arte exploran formas efimeras que existen en la naturaleza y en nuestro entorno urbano. Imágenes geometricas o de otro tipo, que surgen en la intersección de la ciencia, el arte y la cultura, lo físico y lo digital. La contextualizacion de estas ideas lo llevan a reformular historias, formas y espacios que creemos "reales" y definidos como arte.
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STATEMENT
Born in Mexico City and living in California since 1987. I was exposed to the Old Masters as an early child, but I decided to pursue a career in science, waiting decades to create art. A passion for art re-ignited in a period of deep introspection and healing, searching for a vehicle to communicate visually my experience. The first physical paintings depicted an altered landscape resulting from temporary blindness. Re-gaining vision provided a method and new tools to story telling, re-contextualizing and deconstructing the visual space into layers, separating symbols, textures and colors from images. The beauty of my adopted California coast, and urban spaces rich in geometric forms turned out to be perfect substrates for expression. Images requiring new stories, construction of new forms or reinventing existing ones. The physical and digital worlds merge in a deliberate way, stressing basic geometric forms. Instant perceptions reduced into lines, squares, circles, edges and patterns. Subtle geometrical compositions of basic structures in nature and urban environments. Vision, idea, change, and emotional judgement become integrated in the pictorial method of explaining alternative stories.
Equipped with all these tools of reflection and self-discovery, I am daily inspired to communicate visually my views. I defend originality in art as an independent thinking and opinion, since: "In Art, man reveal himself and not his objects. Art is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the real. R. Tagore.
Exhibitions:
Collective Exhibition, Lacuna Art Gallery, San Diego State University, April 23-May 1, 2018
South View and Modernite in New York 1.0. Artbox Project at the Armory Art Weeks in New York, March 5-17, 2018.
"Afflatus" at the Euroairport, Swiss side, Event platform Luminator. June 14-18, 2017 part of the Basel Art Weeks.
"South View," "Otra Arboleda" "Afflatus," "An Unusual Day," "Ocean," "Dream," "Alegria," and "Atemoztli" in the Swiss platform, Vote4Art, an Art Application created by Ideenmeisterei GMBH General-Guisan-Strasse 6, 6300 Zug, Switzerland, October 15 2016 - May 15, 2017.
"Alegria" at the Artbox.Project Miami at Spectrum, Artweeks in Miami, FL, Nov 30 - Dec Dec 4 2016. Booth 211, 1700 NE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL 33132.
Collective Exhibition Artbox.Project Miami 1.0.
"Rain is Coming Down," Perceptions, 2016. Collective Exhibition, Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA)- Artist Alliance, North Coast Repertory Theater, Solana Beach, CA during the West Coast Premiere of Way Downriver; William Faulkner's "Old Man," from April 13–May 8, 2016. Play adapted by Edward Morgan and directed by David Ellenstein.
"Camellia and RetinART" 2016. During the U.S. Premiere of George Feydeu's "Now You See It" translated by Kenneth McLeish and Directed by Bruce Turk. OMA Artist Alliance, North Coast Repertory Theater, Solana Beach, CA
Artist of the Day, Saatchi Art- April 5, 2016, Saatchi Art
"Mexico Paintings and Digital Collages," Latin American Art Festival, NTC Liberty Station, San Diego, CA 2016.
"Green Tapestries and Pansies" 2015, Collective exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA
Solo Exhibition, "Camellia and Kelp Life" 2014, Long Beach City Hall, Long Beach, CA,
Solo Exhibition, "Impressions from the Right Angle" 2014, Long Beach Public Library, Long Beach, CA,
Solo Exhibition, "Ocean and Signals in Long Beach" 2014, Long Beach Public Library, Long Beach, CA
"RetinART," 2013, Solo Exhibition, Green Bliss Cafe, Fullerton, CA,
