EXHIBITION IMAGES | WORKS | PRESS RELEASE
September 14 – October 6, 2013
HALSEY MCKAY is pleased to present, Old Habits, an exhibition of new sculptures by Ernesto Burgos. Burgos’ new works continue his investigation of systems that reflect the shifting nature of metaphorical language, mark making and form. Placed on pedestals at varying heights, the room is filled with his sui generis amorphous sculptures, constructed from cardboard, fiberglass, and paint. These intuitive shapes expand on recognizable formal abstraction, gently shifting and combining to simultaneously acknowledge decay and change, paralleling the current divisiveness of existing systems.
Ernesto Burgos was born in 1979 in California and grew up in Viña Del Mar, Chile. He received a BFA from California College of the Arts and an MFA from New York University. Burgos has held solo exhibitions at Kate Werble Gallery in New York, Goma Gallery in Madrid, Spain and David Castillo Gallery in Miami, FL. His work has been included in group exhibitions at a variety of locations including Ideobox, Miami, FL; Second Home Projects, Berlin, Germany; Apex Art, New York, NY; Locust Projects, Miami, FL; The Paper Mill Gallery, Sydney, Australia; and Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA.