Enrique Castrejon, Los Angeles, CA
Paper Doll Series: Charles Ray Boy Now Girl (detail)
Collage, glue, ink, graphite on paper.
15" x 20"
2007
Enrique Castrejon
B Sloane & M. Duncan Collection
Measured in inches
Scale 1/8" = 1/8"
Angle Degrees Equation:
(360˚- X˚= Y˚)
Exhibited:
Good Doll Bad Doll, Armory Pasadena, 2009
Latitudes, LA ArtCore, 2008
Enrique Castrejon: Artist Statement
I linearly dissect and cut appropriated images found in magazines, newspapers, art catalogues and online sources into smaller identifiable geometric shapes. I investigate and describe what I see through measurements. I transform this selected graphic imagery into quantified drawings mapped by measuring distances between points (x inches), calculating the varied angle degrees created within the shapes (360˚-A˚= B˚), and/or written data related to the image of each shape. I write measurements or other definable data or units along the side of the shapes to question and describe what I see. These precise measurements abstract the image interfering and altering its fixed meaning, creating other possible interpretations through this linear dissection. In creating these fragmented and measured drawings from the parts of the whole, I challenge our perceptions of what is real, forcing us to think critically about information that is constantly bombarding our everyday lives through images selected in directed advertisements, pop-culture sources, editorials and news stories found in printed and online media.
Enrique Castrejon lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Castrejon’s work is also traveling nationally in a group exhibition called Out of Rubble, organized and curated by Susanne Slavick, that looks at how artists have “reacted to the wake of war – its realities and representations.” Castrejon was also a featured artist and panelist on a KPCC 89.3 radio program, Air Talk with Larry Mantel on the topic of Chicano Art & Pacific Standard Time exhibit with participating artists and panelists Gronk, Patissi Valdez and Sonia Romero.
Paper Doll Series: Charles Ray Boy Now Girl (detail)
Collage, glue, ink, graphite on paper.
15" x 20"
2007
Enrique Castrejon
B Sloane & M. Duncan Collection
Measured in inches
Scale 1/8" = 1/8"
Angle Degrees Equation:
(360˚- X˚= Y˚)
Exhibited:
Good Doll Bad Doll, Armory Pasadena, 2009
Latitudes, LA ArtCore, 2008
Enrique Castrejon: Artist Statement
I linearly dissect and cut appropriated images found in magazines, newspapers, art catalogues and online sources into smaller identifiable geometric shapes. I investigate and describe what I see through measurements. I transform this selected graphic imagery into quantified drawings mapped by measuring distances between points (x inches), calculating the varied angle degrees created within the shapes (360˚-A˚= B˚), and/or written data related to the image of each shape. I write measurements or other definable data or units along the side of the shapes to question and describe what I see. These precise measurements abstract the image interfering and altering its fixed meaning, creating other possible interpretations through this linear dissection. In creating these fragmented and measured drawings from the parts of the whole, I challenge our perceptions of what is real, forcing us to think critically about information that is constantly bombarding our everyday lives through images selected in directed advertisements, pop-culture sources, editorials and news stories found in printed and online media.
Enrique Castrejon lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Castrejon’s work is also traveling nationally in a group exhibition called Out of Rubble, organized and curated by Susanne Slavick, that looks at how artists have “reacted to the wake of war – its realities and representations.” Castrejon was also a featured artist and panelist on a KPCC 89.3 radio program, Air Talk with Larry Mantel on the topic of Chicano Art & Pacific Standard Time exhibit with participating artists and panelists Gronk, Patissi Valdez and Sonia Romero.