Steve Turner Contemporary will present Into A Long Punk, Eamon Ore-Giron's first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Ore-Giron's paintings, cut-up record sleeves, manipulated records, and works on paper are derived from the graphic arts used in popular music and the artist's exploration of music as a historian and performer. Ore-Giron manipulates the visual material that accompanies music to create templates for larger paintings that juxtapose text and poetic verse rendered in the style of underground music posters with contrasting color fields. The text comes from a range of sources-from the ancient mythic songs of the Celtic, Mayan, and Tohono O'odham cultures that existed before the written word, from the lyrics of Mexican psych bands from the 60s, as well as from the artist's own creation.

At the opening reception on March 28 at 8 pm, Ore-Giron will perform as Los Cremators with Ojo bandmember, Moises Medina. The performance is titled, "What Can We Make That Will Speak and Pray?" The title refers to a sacred book written in Mayan hieroglyphic script, called Popol Vuh in which the gods attempted to make the first man out of mud, but man could neither move nor speak. Angered over the flaws in their creation, they destroyed him by tearing him apart.

Eamon Ore-Giron was born in Tucson in 1973 and has lived in Peru, Spain, Mexico and the Southwest of the United States, which has informed much of his visual vocabulary. He received a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute (1996) and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles (2006). He has had solo exhibitions at MUCA ROMA, Mexico City (2006), Queen's Nails Annex, San Francisco (2005) and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia (2005). His work was also included in group shows at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; LA >< Art; the San Juan Triennial in Puerto Rico and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Ore-Giron has received awards from Artadia: the Fund for Art and Dialogue and the Headlands Center for the Arts,

As a performance artist, Ore-Giron creates DJ and audio culture forums under a number of names including Los Jaichackers, DJ Lengua and Ojo. He has released a series of EP's as well as a full-length album and was awarded a residency by MOCA to create three performances during the summer of 2009.

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