Ezra Bejar
San Diego, CA, United States
About Ezra Bejar
Ezra's art is experimental, momentary and visually enticing. His paintings and new media art work touch on new and unexplored ideas in nature and in urban environments. Ephemeral images emerging at the intersection of art, culture and science. Multidimensional images challenging our definition of art and notions, forms and spaces.
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Ezra crea piezas de arte con gran interes visual. Sus obras son experimentos que exploran ideas en la naturaleza y en nuestro entorno urbano. Imágenes efimeras de corte geometrico y otras, 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 rica 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 scientific research. I worked three decades as a scientist, writer, and business consultant. Although, early exposed to the "Masters" and contemporary art covering 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 to communicate visual ideas. The first art pieces connected my colorful experiences growing up in Mexico, incorporating abstract images triggered by temporary blindness. Re-gaining vision equipped me with a richer mindscape, and a method and tools for story telling, re-contextualizing and deconstructing the visual space into layers, exploring symbols, textures and colors in images.
A rich heritage, the beauty of my adopted California coast, and the urban spaces rich in geometric forms, have served as perfect substrates for artistic expression. Instant perceptions get reduced into lines, squares, circles, edges and patterns. The images go through my cultural and experiential filter. They become geometrical compositions of basic structures in nature and urban environments. I rarely use a reference. I reproduce my own mindscape and journey. I think that when an artist is self aware and uses his/her personal tools of reflection and self-discovery, his/her creation becomes instinctive and original. Rabindranath Tagore, a Bengali polymath winner of the Nobel prize in Literature, used to say: "In Art, man reveal himself and not his objects. Art is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the real. ”
Education:
- Independent studies, painting and multimedia, school of arts and design, SDSU
- Influencers: Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock, Simon Hantai, Romare Bearden and Rufino Tamayo
- Ph.D. University of the Pacific, School of Pharmacy
- Member, Long Beach Art Council
Events:
C-Note Juried Collective Art Exhibit at the San Diego Art Institute in Balboa Park. San Diego, CA, November 8-11, 2018. Participant with: "Colorin IV," "Underwater Forest" and "In a Grove."
Collective Exhibition, Prof Carlos Castro Painting Group, Lacuna Art Gallery, School of Art and Design, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, October 30-November 13, 2018. Participant with "The Player" Acrylic on canvas 48 x 60."
Collective Exhibition, Lucid Impulses at the Lacuna Art Gallery, School of Art and Design, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, San Diego, CA, October 4-30, 2018. Participating with "The Quest," mix media painting, 18 x 24"
Collective exhibition, Artbox Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland, September 1-30, 2018. Participant with a triptyich "Innate Impulse" oil on board, 24 x 58 projected on a large screen"
Collective Exhibition,144 Space bG Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. August 4-18, 2018. Participating with "Underwater Forest"
Vote 4 Art App, Switzerland. "South View," 1st place winner of cash prize, May 2017,
Artist of the Day, Saatchi Art Online, April 5, 2016.
ON LINE sketches and ideas posted weekly on Instagram at:
https://www.instagram.com/ezra.bejar/
Exhibitions:
Collective Exhibition, Prof Carlos Castro, San Diego State University, San Diego, October 30- November 13, 2018.
Collective Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, C-Note, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA, November 8-11, 2018.
Collective Exhibition Lucid Impulses,San Diego State University, San Diego, October 4-30, 2018.
Collective Exhibition, Artbox Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland, September 1-30, 2018.
Collective Exhibition, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, August 4-18, 2018
Collective Exhibition, 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.
Collective Exhibition, Artbox, Switzerland, Participating with "Afflatus" at the Euroairport, Swiss side, Event platform Luminator. June 14-18, 2017 part of the Basel Art Weeks.
Vote4Art, Art Application by Ideenmeisterei GMBH General-Guisan-Strasse 6, 6300 Zug, Switzerland, October 15 2016 - May 15, 2017. "South View," "Otra Arboleda" "Afflatus," "An Unusual Day," "Ocean," "Dream," "Alegria," and "Atemoztli"
Artbox.Project Miami at Spectrum, Artweeks in Miami, FL, Nov 30 - Dec Dec 4 2016. Booth 211, 1700 NE 2nd Ave, Miami, FL 33132. Participating with: "Alegria" at the Collective Exhibition Artbox.Project Miami 1.0.
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. Participant with "Rain is Coming Down," 2016.
Collective Exhibition, Oceanside Museum of Art (OMA)- Artist Alliance, North Coast Repertory Theater, Solana Beach, CA During the U.S. Premiere of George Feydeu's "Now You See It" translated by Kenneth McLeish and Directed by Bruce Turk. Participating with: "Camellia and RetinART" 2016.
Artist of the Day, Saatchi Art- April 5, 2016, Saatchi Art
Latin American Art Festival, NTC Liberty Station, San Diego, CA 2016."Mexico Paintings and Digital Collages,"
Collective e\Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA, "Green Tapestries and Pansies" 2015,
Solo Exhibition, Long Beach City Hall, Long Beach, CA, "Camellia and Kelp Life" 2014,
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
Solo Exhibition, Green Bliss Cafe,
"RetinART," 2013, Fullerton, CA,
