Artist-in-Residence
Emilio Perez
IN STUDIO
Thursday, November 10, 2011 through
Saturday, December 10, 2011
ON EXHIBIT
Thursday, November 10, 2011 through
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Artist-in-Residence
Emilio Perez
Vibrant, textured and bursting with a calculated chaos, the dynamic works of painter Emilio Perez also evince sculpture. The artist's unique process entails painting sheets of latex and acrylic in different hues onto wood panels and then, using an x-acto blade, slicing away at and removing layers, revealing tracts of muted colors underneath. The canvases juxtapose freeform movement with labor-intensive, measured actions, simultaneously evoking upheaval and harmony, spontaneity and control. Dizzying, vertiginous patterns, roiling swirls, undulating lines and tornado-like vortices are interwoven with short, staccato breaks. They build up and collide into one another with a force that creates a physical and psychological phenomenon wherein the eye attempts to fill in for what is not actually there.
Whether visually read as physical movement, brain activity or emotional shifts, Perez's works--influenced by graphic novels, pop art, music, woodcuts, and the Baroque--exhibit an undeniable magnetism. His ambiguously playful titles—“doin the sleepwalk,” “drowning on dry land,” “fishing while you dream”--shroud the works in mystery and provide no real interpretive clues, further allowing viewers to choose their own adventures.
Born in New York and currently living and working in Brooklyn, Perez received his BFA from the University of Florida’s New World School of the Arts. His most recent solo exhibitions have taken place at Galerie Lelong Paris, CTRL Gallery in Houston, Galerie Lelong in New York City and FILIALE in Berlin. He has been featured in group exhibitions both nationally and internationally: from Dusseldorf, Milan, Tel Aviv and Toronto, to Philadelphia, Chicago, Houston and St. Louis. His works can be found in the permanent collections of the Miami Art Museum, FL; the Albright Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY; the Arkansas Art Center in Little Rock; and in corporate collections throughout the United States.
Solo Exhibitions
2011
Rivers Always Meet The Sea, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
2010
More Reasons Than One, CTRL Gallery, Houston, TX
Breakfast by the Light of the Moon, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
2008
dreaming out of season, FILIALE, Berlin, Germany
2007
New Paintings, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
2005
New Paintings, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
New Paintings, LUXE Gallery, New York, NY
Too Tall To Get Over And Too Wide To Get Around, (drawings / project room), LUXE Gallery, New York, NY
2004
New Paintings, Rocket Projects, Miami, FL
2003
New Paintings, LUXE Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Confection, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
1998
Recent Works, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
Elements of Nature: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Carnegie Art
Museum, Oxnard, CA; traveled to Lancaster Museum/Art Gallery, Lancaster, CA; Contemporary Art
Center, New Orleans, LA
2009
Topographies, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Recent Acquisitions, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Signs of the Apocalypse/Rapture, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Toil and Trouble, CTRL Gallery, Houston, TX
Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Curvilinear, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
2008
A Year in Drawing, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
Remix: Recent Acquisitions, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2007
Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany
abstract 2.0, FILIALE, Berlin, Germany
The Eclectic Eye: Pop and Illusion – Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation,
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
2006
About Light, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
More is More: Maximalist Tendencies in Recent American Painting, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
New York Style, Angell Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2005
Neo-Baroque, Byblos Art Gallery, Verona, Italy
Scene Stealers, Ingalls & Associates, Miami, FL
Opening Bloom, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
Caution On Fire, AR Contemporary, Milan, Italy
2004
Taste Test, Rocket Projects, Miami, FL
Young Americans, Galleri SE, Bergen, Norway
Landing Off, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
Simply Drawn, LUXE Gallery, New York, NY
Mixed Minds, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
Drawing Conclusions II, Rocket Projects, Miami, FL
Stop & Store, LUXE Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Painting & Beyond, Galleri SE, Bergen, Norway
Beautiful Pressure, Rocket Projects, Miami, FL
STREAM, Rare, New York, NY
Inside the Paper, Centro Cultural Español, Miami, FL
Drawing Conclusions, Miami, FL
2002
Peculiarly Pink, LUXE Gallery, New York, NY
Globe>Miami<Island, MOCA, Washington, D.C.
2001
Globe>Miami<Island, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
Specialities, FLAT, New York, NY
2000
The S-Files, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
Mount Miami, The Artists' Studios, Tel Aviv, Israel
1999
Art Gang,Warehouse Gallery, Miami, FL
1998
Group Exhibition, Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
34th Annual Art on Paper Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
2x2, ArtCenter South Florida, Miami Beach, FL
1997
Drawing the Line, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL
Invasion of Privacy, Ground Level Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
1996
she is stupid i am worried, Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
