FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Julio César Morales and Eamon Ore-Giron
"Loop Tone"
April 4, 2008 – April 30, 2008
Opening night: Friday, April 4, 5-9 p.m.
Deborah Page Gallery
1028 Montana Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90403
Contact, Jessica Kalweit
(310) 458-4400, fax (310) 458-4401
E-mail, jessica@deborahpagegallery.com
Web site, http://deborahpagegallery.com
Gallery hours, Tues.-Sat., 11am-6pm; Sun., 12-5pm; or by appointment
Julio César Morales, ”Undocumented Interventions #13”, 2008, digital image on watercolor, 40 x 30”.
A two person exhibition by Julio César Morales and Eamon Ore-Giron that experiments with and weaves together sculpture, photography and DJing with painting and other graphic tradition. The title refers to electronic musical terminology in regards to sampling; Morales and Ore-Giron translate the cultural phenomena of sampling as a way to investigate black market trade and sub-cultural phenomena, to a near fetishism of DJ culture.
Morales and Ore-Giron’s collaboration in “Loop Tone” for Deborah Page Gallery will be shown concurrently with their installation at LACMA’s “Phantom Sightings,” an exhibit that will travel to the Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico City, El Museu del Barrio and the Americans Society in New York, and the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston. Los Jaichackers create unique installations that evoke a shared passion for audio culture and a critical engagement with the porous borders and chaotic migration patterns between first, second and third worlds. Both artists will also be featured in the upcoming 2008 California Biennial.
Julio César Morales is an artist/educator/curator who currently resides in San Francisco and works both individually and collaboratively. Morales was born in Tijuana, Mexico and he attended The San Francisco Art Institute where he studied in the New Genres department. His artwork uses a range of media including photography, video, and printed and digital media to make conceptual projects that address the productive friction that occurs in trans-cultural territories such as urban Tijuana and San Francisco, and in inherently impure media such as popular music and graphic design. His work has been exhibited at the UCLA Hammer Museum, the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Fototeca de Havana in Cuba, Peres Projects in LA and the Museum Universitario de Ciencias y Arte Roma in Mexico City amongst others. Julio’s work has also been in the 2006 Singapore Biennale and the Tenth Annual Istanbul Biennale, he will also participate in the 2008 California Biennial.
Eamon Ore-Giron is an artist whose practice incorporates elements of the visual, performance, installation, and music. Most noted as a painter associated with the so-called San Francisco “Mission School” or “New Folk” style. Ore-Giron has also produced several albums encompassing experimental musical performances with the group OJO, Saicodelic Latin music under the moniker DJ LENGUA, and other minimal electronic music as Los Cremators. He attended The San Francisco Art Institute where he received his BFA and completed his MFA at UCLA in 2006. His work has been shown at Dietch Projects (NY), Rivington Arms (NY), MUCA Roma (Mexico City), Peres Projects (LA), Queens Nails Annex (San Francisco), LAXART (LA), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco) as well as numerous other venues nationally and internationally. He has appeared on radio, clubs and alternative art venues stretching from Hawaii to New York to Denmark.
Opening night Friday, April 4 from 5-9 p.m. at the gallery. Music by DJ Little Onion of Club Unicornio.
