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Unified Field: The Border

August 24, 2006- September 9, 2006

Reception: August 24, 12:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Beatriz Ezban

ZONE Chelsea Center for the Arts

601 W 26th St

This year, artist Beatriz Ezban was invited to Yaddo. One of the first and most prestigious colonies for artists in the US located North of New York, it was founded in 1900 with the single purpose of offering artists a suitable atmosphere for the creation of their work. Some of the highlight residents of Yaddo have been: Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capote, Clyfford Still, Philip Guston, Milton Avery, Patricia Highsmith, Sylvia Plath, among others.

During her stay at Yaddo, Beatriz Ezban made a series of large format oil works and enamel drawings to build up the exhibition that premieres on August 24 at Galería Zone: Chelsea Center for the Arts, in New York city.

After The Principle of Uncertainty, presented by the artist at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City, she continues with her science-art dialogue with the Theory of a Unified Field, applied as a metaphor to the illegal inmigration problem.

The result is titled Unified Field: The Border. In the artist’s own words: “Some countries operate as magnetic fields, either by attracting or repelling people away. There are always diverse reasons and responsibilities from both sides in order for this to happen, but the important thing is to be aware that no human being is essentially illegal. The anonymous transgressor becomes such for the single reason of not having enough money in the bank to demonstrate he/she deserves a visa. Therefore, what is illegal is to be poor, to have a low educational level, to need an employment and to wish for a better life.”

The curator and director of Zone:Chelsea Gallery, states about the project that: “Ezban hope to be able to negotiate between the imperatives in conflict, which she has named “asymmetrical meeting points”. Art itself may turn the borders of chaos into unified fields that relate to each other harmonically.” On the other side, “along the 20th century, an antagonistic atmosphere between representation and abstraction, between pure painting and narrative, frequently prevails in the art world. Such limits become more diffuse in contemporary artist’s work. Beatriz Ezban, whose work has been featured in major spaces in Mexico as well as in other countries, contributes to bring this dialogue forward.”

Beatriz Ezban has a broad career as an artist, with 30 solo exhibitions and more than 80 group shows both in the national and international levels, for which her work was selected to become a part of the Permanent Collection of the Presidential Pine House and Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico.

On various occasions she has obtained the FONCA awards and motivations in national contests, of which the most recent was her insertion in the National System of Creators, and the Acquisition Award of the 11th Tamayo Biennial.

In 2004 she had a solo show of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City and has exhibited internationally in Germany, Norway, Poland, Island, Ireland, Canada, the US, China, Morocco and Rumania, among other countries.

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