SACRED TREE

 

BY

Eduardo Sarabia

 

NOVEMBER 28th, 2021 - JANUARY 31st, 2022

160 NE 40TH STREET | FLOOR 2

 
 
 
 

EDUARDO SARABIA SOLO EXHIBITION

SACRED TREE

Opening on November 28th, Sacred Tree , is a new series of lithographs by Mexican-American artist, Eduardo Sarabia. Sacred Tree will feature a series of 10 lithographs, each being a limited edition of 24 with 1 AP each. Each lithograph is a Silkscreen Print with Gold Leaf on Arches Paper, with a select few being hand embellished by Eduardo Sarabia.

The exhibition is the most recent installation conceived by the artist, as a result of a personal fascination with the quetzal – its myths and current reality. Tying in the space, Eduardo will be painting on a series of Blu Scarpa products and will be displaying a large selection of unique hand-painted ceramic plates. The remainder of the works will be revealed during the opening.

At the foundation of the exhibition, The Sacred Tree series (translated as “Ceiba Sagrada”), are the trips that Sarabia has made for personal reasons, but also as multicultural explorations: these journeys emerge from anecdotes of narco-culture to approximations of the shamans of Southern Mexico and their search for the Quetzal. These micro stories contained in his work display senses of power, with hidden learnings, with faith, or with different belief systems. These are forms of knowledge that the artist reassesses, given their abundant presence, and it is possible to learn something from them as if they were supplementary layers of realization.

The Sacred Tree series that makes up this exhibition invites the viewer to question the reasons why we no longer attend to spiritual issues as our ancestors once did, and to reflect if perhaps it is a good time to return to it.

The exhibition marks THE OFFICE.’s debut presentation for Miami Art Week.

 
 

SACRED TREE (“CEIBA SAGRADA”) LITHOGRAPHS

 

ABOUT THE ARTIST: EDUARDO SARABIA

Eduardo Sarabia’s work is founded on narrative and the transmission of his stories and real-life experiences. Born in Los Angeles, California, to Mexican parents, his work addresses the cultural impact of social phenomena pertaining predominantly to Mexico’s past and present history. Part of his process is the search for certain experiences that interest him particularly as research, but also as a nutrient of the work. In these discoveries, which later transform into stories, are certain portions where a sense of mystical and energetic sentiment is presented in some life practices. His artistic investigation includes the collection of stories that, in terms of cultural studies, potentiate the perspective on our environment and our relationship with nature, from the physical, the political and the economical, but also from the mystical and philosophical.

Eduardo Sarabia was born in Los Angeles, CA and currently lives and works in the beautiful city of Guadalajara located in Jalisco, Mexico. His work has been exhibited in numerous museums such as Tamayo Museum in Mexico City in 2016; 2014 at Centro Cultural Cabañas in Guadalajara and Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Oaxaca, Mexico, in the same year at ASU Art Museum, Arizona; in 2013 he had a solo show for his paintings at Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; and venues such as Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2008 at the Whitney Biennial, and New Museum in New York. He has received 2 grants for the Durfee Grant Foundation (2004 and 2008) and has been invited to be an artist in residence at Tokyo Wonder Site in Tokyo, Japan were he completed a large public ceramic mural.

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