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Artmaking at the Whitneywith Eamon Ore-Giron

August 11, 11 am4 pm.
Free
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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.

Featured as part of the Free Second Sundays program.

Floor 1, lobby. Free with Museum admission. Seating is first-come, first-served.

Photograph by Ron Amstutz

Location:

99 Gansevoort Street
New York, 10014