Jenny Perez has created a style which reflects the energy of street art and her admiration for formal abstraction. The finished images found in her newest body of work represent the shadows of her past, and the whispers of her forward journey, as she sees it. The titles of her paintings are simple observations, poetic markers, and moments of change. A strongly driven Caribbean-American artist, Perez paints with a zest for exploration, relentless reworking, editing, a tireless preoccupation with the idea of process as the focal point. Perez’s beginnings as a painter centered around her daily observations of Miami’s golden age of street art. Being heavily influenced by the street art scene and a number of hugely important artists who she befriended, Perez has taken her learned skills and carried them into the formal studio setting, creating a stylized, electric and experimental language all of her own.

Perez’s current body of work explores bright and dark colors on biomorphic shaped canvases. Contrast; the pushing and pulling, breaking, putting back together, creating a spatial feeling, a composition in motion. The inspiration behind this collection begin with the canvas itself, custom made in sculptural forms and that find roots in Victorian aristocratic portraits. The paintings are a love note to Perez’ heritage and celebrate women of color in their right and royalty.

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