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Contemporary artist Erik Jerezano is enamored by characters in fables and popular tales that have the ability to become something else, to transform into another body. His pale illustrations with muted watercolours and delicate ink lines are drawn as though belonging to a children’s fairytale book, and yet the characters are darker and grimmer than the anticipated bunny rabbits or flying adventurers.
Instead we see reoccurring themes of metamorphosis in his disjoined tableaux of borrowed limbs and tight-rope walkers, rifle-clad prosthetics, armies of insects and mysterious beasts. Mutation and transformation are current themes in Jerezano’s work, as he explores anthropomorphism, fable and the grotesque in ways that offer abstract encounters.
Erik Jerezano was born in Mexico City in 1973. He is a self-taught artist who arrived in Toronto in 2001. His work has been exhibited widely in Canada and abroad individually and as a member of the Z’otz* Collective.
On view from September 12 – October 24, 2015
Gallery Hours: Wed–Sat, 12pm-6pm or by appointment
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