Cesar Herrejon

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Current Exhibition:

April 13 - May 18, 2024.

There’s no telling time

Jackie Castillo, Shabez Jamal, Sarah Plummer, Xiao He, Cesar Herrejon, Magaly Cantú.

Group Exhibition.

Release:

+ File; Curate LA; Artillery.

Press:

+ Feature (LA Art Party: April 13, 2024).

+ This Week’s Must-See Art (Curate LA: April 11-17, 2024).

+ LA Art Openings & Spotlight (ArtRabbit: April 10, 2024).

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Bio

Cesar Herrejon is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Colorado Boulder focusing on mixed media painting and drawing. He is from Birmingham Alabama. Growing up in the deep south, Cesar was involved in the skateboard culture around his teen years and draws influences from these childhood experiences into his work. Currently his work also explores materials foreign to academic artistic expression that parallel and enrich his cultural heritage. He often uses defamiliarized quotations from culture in his work like the surrealism that he finds deeply rooted in Mexican Culture. Art is the only thing that has interested him, and it is the only thing he has found to feel passionate about and build his identity with. His studies and research included printmaking incorporating it with painting and drawing.

{Biographical text courtesy of the artist.}

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With Herrejon’s Untitled Images (2024) collage of xerox transfers (onto silicon caulking), I am left to pick-up the pieces and install myself among the remains. The sepia toned slabs of translucent silicon pucker under their weight against the rusty nails clasping each piece on the wall, with foggy images peering-through from a distance that resembles a bad memory remembered fondly. Or a good memory remembered badly—or barely. (After all, it’s arguable that all family photos are bad memories, or at least memories so intentionally made that they become imagination.) Or maybe I’m just thinking of an episode from a TV show or a meme I almost made and I end-up mistaking that for my own memory. Either way, I find myself forgetting what I remember as soon as I assume someone put any of these images together for a reason.

Or maybe memory is what holds them in-place, not where they came from….

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Exhibitions with the Gallery: