About Ezra Bejar
Ezra's paintings are multidimensional. His art touches on forms in nature and in urban environments. Ephemeral images emerging at the intersection of science, art and culture, using physical and digital media. His visual ideas challenge our definition of art and notions about 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, usando medios físicos y digitales. La contextualizacion de estas ideas se filtran a traves de su experiencia en Mexico y en Estados Unidos, llevandolo a reformular historias, formas y espacios que creemos "reales" y que retan nuestra definicion de arte.
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STATEMENT
Born in Mexico City, I found a second home in California since 1987. In Mexico, as a child, I was exposed to a fascinating world of art and culture, but as an adult, I decided to pursue a scientific profession, receiving a Ph.D. in pharmacology and I have worked three decades as a creative scientist, writer, and scientific and international business consultant.
Although, exposed early to the "Masters" covering the walls of my father's gallery, a passion for art re-ignited until 2010 on a period of deep introspection and healing, searching for a wider bandwidth and a vehicle to communicate ideas visually. My first pieces connected to colorful experiences growing up in Mexico, while incorporating abstracts images triggered by thoughts resulting from my experience with temporary blindness. Re-gaining vision equipped me with a new mindscape, and a method and tools for 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 into perfect substrates for artistic expression. Physical and digital worlds merged highlighting basic geometric forms. Instant perceptions reduced into lines, squares, circles, edges and patterns going through my cultural and experiential filter. Subtle geometrical compositions of basic structures in nature and urban environments acted as a medium. My pictorial method is simple, I reproduce what I see on my own mindscape, including the dust and imperfections. When only using personal tools of reflection and self-discovery, art becomes original, 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.
Events:
My triptych "Innate Impulse" will be shown at the ARTBOX.SCREEN in the ARTBOX GALLERY in Zurich, September 1-30, 2018.
"Underwater Forest" at the 144 Space exhibition at the bG Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. August 4-18, 2018, 3009 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405. Reception August 4, 2018 5-8 PM.
"South View," 1st place on May 2017, Vote 4 Art App, Switzerland.
ARTIST OF THE DAY. Featured by Saatchi Art Online on April 5, 2016.
ON LINE sketches and ideas posted weekly on Instagram at:
https://www.instagram.com/ezra.bejar/
Exhibitions:
Collective Exhibition, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, August 4-18, 2018
Collective Exhibition, Lacuna Art Gallery, San Diego State University, April 23-May 1, 2018
Collective Exhibition, 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,
