Oscar Rene Cornejo "Aposematic"

Bridge Gallery

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Oscar Rene Cornejo’s treatment of surface is often lush and painterly incorporating media such as encaustic, cement, plaster, printmaking and hand dyed fabrics in his paintings. As one who is driven to do things by working on some surface or another with some tool or object or another, in this context emerges a visual lexicon that repeats as it declares, his paintings index a grammar of stencil and silk-screen, woodcut and lithograph. Cornejo’s practical and intellectual process is as conscious as his choice of mediums techniques and original combinations. Cornejo is a maker. He blurs the distinctions between painting and sculpture; as flat surfaces are augmented with materials, trace imagery and texture. Cornejo plays with contradiction, paradox and ironies. The work is nuanced, by neutralizing the subject where a pure painted surface can declare itself while at the same time being at odds with its construction. Present is a lessening of the reliance of art in indexical qualities, seeking to create meaning. Cornejo’s work implies symbol and semaphore existing outside the context of power, identity. Something is happening just below the surface. Channeling the energy and anxiety of the world around him. History and memory are ever present through Cornejo’s layering of surface tension, texture and language.

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from May 11, 2012 to June 11, 2012

Opening Reception on 2012-05-10 from 18:00 to 20:00

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