About

Jenny Perez has created a style which reflects the energy of street art while illustrating her admiration for formal abstraction. The imagery found in her most recent body of work represents the shadows of her past, and the whispers of her forward journey, as she commands it. The titles of her paintings lend even more dimension as simple observations, poetic markers, and almost indicators of change.

A strongly driven Caribbean-American artist, Jenny paints with a zest for exploration, relentlessly reworking and editing, with an inexhaustible preoccupation with the idea of process as a focal point. Her beginnings as a painter centered around her daily observations of Miami’s golden age of street art in the early 2000s. Being heavily influenced by this burgeoning scene along with friendships established with key street artists, Jenny has taken her learned skills and carried them into the formal studio setting, creating a stylized, electric and experimental language all her own.

Jenny’s current body of work explores tints and shades of rich color brushed onto biomorphic shaped canvases. Therein lies the contrast: in the pushing and pulling, breaking and putting back together, she creates volumes of spatial perception encompassing a composition in motion. There is movement and still points on which to rest in her work, which commingle to voice her vision of what was, what is, and what she desires to come.
Her inspiration behind the collection initiated with the shape of the canvas itself as she had custom made the sculptural forms that hark back to those of Victorian aristocratic portraits. There are even hints of the rich, dark palettes used to paint the refined, composed and dignified, noble men and women of those years privileged enough to be immortalized on canvas.

At the same time, her paintings are a love note to her own heritage, celebrating women of color in their own right and royalty. She bestows upon each of her paintings a tender abstraction to render them universal, both in time and space.