Bruno David presents Idiosyncratic Tantrums, an exhibition of recent work by Mario Trejo.

This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.

Mario Trejo’s work features extensive accumulations that visually explore eternity and struggle through manic mark making. Considering the concepts of time, space, and number, He creates hundreds of thousands of marks, exhibiting conscious and sensitive attention to both detail and the whole. He begins to form small universes, each a relic of the arduous performance of repeated gestures. reconciling personal experience with the ideas of measurement and disorder in conceptual layers; the compulsive mark reflects the eternal battle between himself and his surroundings, but the product becomes a facsimile of the sublime remoteness of the universe in miniature, revealing at once loneliness, futility, chaos, and uncertainty. His current work is a metaphor for the fragile imperium under which we all reside.

Mario Trejo said, “I am fascinated with space, time, and numbers. I draw black accumulations of quickly executed idiosyncratic circles forming abstract compositions. These peculiar marks are a never-ending struggle with myself and my surroundings at a distance. These repetitive, meticulous, and time-based works are all attempts to visualize epic numbers of macrocosmic and microcosmic entities. The amalgamations of hundreds of thousands of circles in varying densities begin to resemble pocket universe, each a relic of an arduous performance of repeated gestures.

The perfect circle is the greatest example of perfection and knowledge. The perversion of its flawless symmetrical form by my hand represents my failed attempt to recreate perfection, and my inability to grasp the ideal. The relentless repetition of these circles is my continuous attempt to comprehend cosmic phenomenon and the human condition. It is the desperate effort of an impotent being to understand unanswerable questions., his work appears to be homogeneous fields of order, but upon closer inspection, each expanse of black marks crumbles into a Promethean struggle, manic fields of chaos and uncertainty.

Mario Trejo lives and works in Seattle, Washington. His work is, in a word, meticulous. It features extensive accumulations that visually explore eternity and struggle through manic mark making. Considering the concepts of time, space and number, Trejo creates hundreds of thousands of marks, exhibiting his conscious and sensitive attention to both detail and the whole. He begins to form small universes, each a relic of the arduous performance of repeated gestures. Trejo reconciles personal experience with the ideas of measurement and disorder in conceptual layers; the compulsive mark reflects the eternal battle between the artist and his surroundings, but the product becomes a facsimile of the sublime remoteness of the universe in miniature, revealing at once loneliness, futility, chaos and uncertainty. The artist aptly describes his work as a metaphor for imperium under which we all reside.

Mario Trejo received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. He has had several shows in the southwest as well as the mid-west, sat on an artists' panel in 2008, and will be the exhibitions director for the Museum of Pocket Art in 2009. Trejo currently lives and works in Illinois.