In Room for Error, Juan Alcazaren throws artistic caution to the wind, preferring to let forms and images to take shape freely along the way. The result is a diverse set of paintings, sculptures, and an installation, which will be on view from August 28 to September 29 at West Gallery, West Avenue.
“Making mistakes is part of any human endeavor, art making included,” says Alcazaren. “In fact, mistakes and accidents are sometimes welcome, as part of the process. Sometimes the evidence or error is presented as part of the work, other times only the artist knows what transpired before his idea came to fruition. For this show, I have pre-forgiven myself for the mistakes in choices I anticipate but don’t really know will occur. It’s all part of the plan to have no plan.”
For Alcazaren, having no plan is like mounting a solo exhibit that he hopes it will look like a group show. He explains further, “Often, I’m not completely convinced of the effectiveness or integrity of my work until I see it installed in the gallery. In that sense, the gallery or the “room,” validates the “error” of my uncertainty.” Alcazaren likens the gallery to a white cube where “almost anything can seem engaging,” and gives every piece plenty of space between them, as if they were done by different artists.
A CCP Thirteen Artists Award recipient in 2000, Alcazaren took up landscape architecture at the UP College of Architecture.
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