Mario Trejo

“I fabricate the chaos from which the viewer’s eye interprets the macro, the micro, and the epic idiosyncratic. Through the repeated marriage of surface and tool, something emerges from nothing, and I begin to form small universes, each a relic of the arduous performance of repeated gestures. I create to reinforce the un-deniability of my own existence. I create to subvert the impermanence of life.

Physically, my wrist is the fulcrum upon which the marks churn forth, a direct line from the mind to the page. Compositionally, the work is pushed right to the radiant edge where creation becomes destruction. Naturally, this is a practice based on endurance. In an endless quest to harness the sublime power of the infinite, I fall ever short. I accept this as a condition of my limitations even as I continue to push those limitations. My work stands as evidence of both my Quixotic ambitions and Sisyphean labor. The energy embedded in each piece is self-evident. ”

"STRUGGLE"
Archival Pen/Gesso on Panel
34.5" x 52", 2008

"Emersive Idiom"
Enamel/Pencil on Panel
36" x 24", 2011

"New Catharsis XXI"
Archival Pens/Enamel on Panel
24" x 18", 2011

"Blue Space"
Enamel/Archival Pen on Board
10" x 8", 2010

"Black Idiom II"
Enamel/Pencil on Panel
36" x 24", 2011

"Prime Catharsis"
Enamel/Acrylic on Panel
48" x 36", 2011

Untitled VII (New Catharsis Series)
Archival Pens/Enamel on Panel
24" x 18", 2011

New Catharsis XX
Archival Pens/Enamel on Panel
24" x 18", 2011

"High Idioms"
Archival Pens/Enamel on Panel
24" x 18", 2010

"Landscape XII "
Archival Pen/Enamel on Panel
24" x 18 ", 2010

Untitled V (New Catharsis Series)
Archival Pens/Enamel on Panel
24" x 18", 2011

"New VI"
Micron on Board
7.5" x 10" image
17.5" x 14" framed, 2009

Untitled IV (New Catharsis Series)
Archival Pens/Enamel on Panel
24" x 18", 2011

Untitled II (New Catharsis Series) .
Archival Pens/Enamel on Panel
24" x 18", 2011

"Landscape X "
Archival Pens/Enamel on Panel
24" x 36 ", 2009

"Untitled IV (from the Catharsis Series)"
India Ink/Acrylic on Board
20" x 16", 2008

"Unremarkable"
Archival Pens/Enamel on Panel
24" x 18", 2010

"Untitled VIII (from the Catharsis Series)"
India Ink/Acrylic on Board
20" x 16", 2008

"Untitled II"
Graphite on Panel
12" x 9", 2010

"Systemic"
Micron/Enamel on Panel
24" x 18 ", 2010

"Contained Space (VII) Idiosyncratic Series "
Micron Pen/Ink and Enamel on Panel
12" x 12" x 2", 2010

"Study for Neo Promethean IV "
Mircron and Enamel on Panel
24" x 18 ", 2010

"Study for Neo Promethean IX "
Mircron and Enamel on Panel
24" x 18 ", 2010

"Study for Neo Promethean X "
Mircron and Enamel on Panel
24" x 18 ", 2010

"One Million (At least one million hand drawn and counted idiosyncratic circles)"
Mircron pen ink, Acrylic and Gesso on Panel
48" x 108 " x 2", 2008-2010