Ezra Bejar
Ezra Bejar
San Diego, CA, United States
About Ezra Bejar
Artist Ezra Bejar (EB) uses a blend of technology, art and nature to make one-of-a-kind art pieces. His art is a sensory experiment in randomness and premeditation resulting in visually enticing, colorful images challenging our definition of art forms and spaces. His pieces have been distilled from a humanly rich mindscape, where art, culture and science coalesce. A language giving permanent life to his creation. His art has been shown and collected in the United States, Mexico and Europe. ___________________________________________ Ezra Bejar (EB) utiliza una combinación de tecnología, arte y natura creando obras de arte únicas. Su arte es un experimento sensorial con imágenes coloridas y visualmente atractivas desafiando nuestra definición de formas y espacios. Sus imagenes surgen en un rico paisaje mental, donde el arte, la cultura y la ciencia encuentran símbolos y estructura. Su lenguaje le da vida permanente a su creación. Sus obras han sido exhibidas y coleccionadas en Estados Unidos, México y Europa. ______________________________________ ARTIST STATEMENT Where are you from and what started your interest in art? I was born in Mexico City, but I found a second home in California. As a child, I was given independence and space to explore science and art projects. My mother allowed me to set up a lab in our house and make chemical formulas and concoctions. I also explored the behavior and anatomy of animals. But I was inspired each day in the fascinating world of color in the remains of my father's art gallery and art culture in the streets of Mexico. Where did you study? As an adult, I pursued an unexpected long and regimented academic training in the sciences. This, was followed by an intense pursuit of a scientific profession in biomedical science doing research for the university and companies. The scientific routine built a core structure and discipline I am now able to use to create art. I am mostly self taught in the arts, but have received incredible lessons from art teachers at SDSU. What is every day? I focus my artistic passion with a scientific approach. I use a blend of technology, art and instinct, revisiting what I learned early from the "Masters" and other fine artists, and from my personal diary in instagram. I then quietly dream on the methods and experiments I have to do with media, paint and texture to create. Why art? I am convinced art creation better suits me. It allows me to express better who I am and also my personal reason for being. When and how? A passion for creating art re-ignited in 2010 on a period of down time after an eye problem which led me to deep introspection and healing; searching for a wider bandwidth to communicate about me and my original artistic ideas. Colorful ideas grew out of my personal scientific and artistic journey, savoring my child's fortunes growing up in a big, cosmopolitan city, with many adventures and friends. Childhood images blended with the abstract images, triggered by my thoughts, experiencing temporary blindness. Re-gaining vision equipped me with a richer mindscape, and a reinforced method and tools, for story telling, I enjoy re-contextualizing and deconstructing the visual space into layers, exploring symbols, shadows, textures and colors finding new meaning and understanding in that process. What Inspires you? Nature and urban spaces rich in geometric forms serve as perfect substrates for daily artistic expression. Images emerge quickly through my cultural and experiential filter, evolving into compositions with interpretations of spaces and basic structures. I rarely use a reference picture when I paint. Instead I try to reproduce what I "see" and how I "feel" about it in my own mindscape and journey. I think when an artist is self aware and uses personal tools of reflection and self-discovery, creation becomes instinctive and original. Rabindranath Tagore said: "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:
- Self taught artist
- Independent art studies, painting and multimedia, school of arts and design, SDSU
- Influencers: Henri Rousseau, Piet Mondrian, Jackson Pollock, Simon Hantai, Romare Bearden, Rufino Tamayo and Francisco Toledo.
- Trained as a scientist
- Member, San Diego Art Institute
- Member, Long Beach Art Council
Events:
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, San Diego Art Institute, C-Note, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA, November 8-11,
2018.
Collective Exhibition, San Diego State University, School of Arts and Design, San Diego, October 30- November 13, 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,