Artmaking with Eamon Ore-Giron Sun, Aug 11, 2024, 11 am–4 pm

Artmaking with Eamon Ore-Giron

Sun, Aug 11, 2024
11 am–4 pm

A gallery at the Whitney Museum featuring Eamon Ore-Giron's paintings. The space has light wooden floors and white walls, with three large paintings on display. The painting closest to the viewer on the right wall showcases abstract, flowing shapes in pastel colors, including purple, blue, and yellow. In the background, two other paintings are visible: one featuring a detailed face with geometric patterns and the other with vibrant, abstract forms similar to the painting on the right. The gallery has a clean, modern aesthetic with an open layout and high ceilings.

Installation view of Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 20–August 11, 2024). From left to right: Eamon Ore-Giron, Talking Shit with My Jaguar Face, 2024; Talking Shit with Amaru (Wari), 2023; Talking Shit with Viracocha’s Rainbow (Iteration I), 2023. Photograph by Ron Amstutz

A gallery at the Whitney Museum featuring Eamon Ore-Giron's paintings. The space has light wooden floors and white walls, with three large paintings on display. The painting closest to the viewer on the right wall showcases abstract, flowing shapes in pastel colors, including purple, blue, and yellow. In the background, two other paintings are visible: one featuring a detailed face with geometric patterns and the other with vibrant, abstract forms similar to the painting on the right. The gallery has a clean, modern aesthetic with an open layout and high ceilings.

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Floor 1, Lobby

Open to all ages

Celebrate the last day of the Biennial with Eamon Ore-Giron! Join the artist in the Lobby to create your own creature collage inspired by Ore-Giron’s mythological paintings featured in the 2024 Biennial. Combine your favorite creatures’ features to bring a brand new being into the world, and stop by the Tattoo Studio to get your own Ore-Giron temporary tatt! 

Ore-Giron’s colorful series of paintings reimagine deities from ancient Peruvian and Mexican cultures. One work features the mythological rainbow, depicted by Ore-Giron as a double-headed serpent, made by the creation god Viracocha. Next to this painting is the artist’s take on an Amaru, a mythological dragon-like creature that is depicted in a variety of forms. Sometimes it has the head of a puma or llama along with condor wings, a snake’s body, a fish’s tail, and scales resembling those of a crocodile or lizard. Ore-Giron renders these supernatural beings in abstract forms, with precise lines, and vibrant colors to explore the living ancestral past in ways that are open, informal, and personal.