Eamon Ore-Giron at Frieze New York

For the 2022 edition of Frieze New York at The Shed, James Cohan is pleased to present a solo booth of new work by Eamon Ore-Giron. The fair is open to the public from May 19 through May 22, with an invite-only preview on Wednesday, May 18.

All of the paintings in this special presentation are part of Ore-Giron’s ongoing Infinite Regress series. Within these works, the artist’s totemic visual language is subject to an ongoing process of reformulation.

Painting with highly-pigmented flashe on raw brown linen, Ore-Giron’s abstractions recall religious iconography, sacred landscapes, and celestial bodies. With simple shapes that shift in and out of graphic fields of gold, the paintings in this series are each a variation on the one that came before, suggesting a trajectory of future iterations.

Ore-Giron combines motifs and symbols drawn from sources that span geographies and time— from the stylized geometry of Incan jewelry to Brazilian Neo-Concretism, Italian Futurism, and the spatial arrangements of Russian Suprematism—to create a visual language that is uniquely his own.

Miranda Lash, Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, writes: “Ore-Giron seems to instinctively understand that culture is a constant absorption of multitudinous influences that can at any moment virally replicate in new directions, resulting in combinations never seen before. This is an iterative and generative approach to history - iterative because themes often repeat themselves, yet in that process of repetition, there is inevitably a reshuffling and creation of new forms.”

Eamon Ore-Giron (b. 1973, Tucson, USA) currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1996 and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2006. Within his expansive practice, which includes painting, video, and music, Ore-Giron explores the possibilities of cross-cultural exchange and influence. 

Ore-Giron is currently the subject of a solo exhibition, Competing with Lightning / Rivalizando con el relámpago, at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, which is on view through May 22, 2022. His work is in the permanent collections of Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Kadist, San Francisco; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Pérez Art Museum Miami; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. LEARN MORE →