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Emilio Perez

Born 1972, New York.

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Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand” Confucius

Inspired by his personal history, life experiences and travels, Emilio Perez’s paintings reveal an interest in the natural landscape and a lifelong passion for the sea.

By layering memories and fleeting imagery, the artist evokes a visual experience that seduces the viewer via the dynamic forces of nature together with a desire to understand how the narrative unfolds and where it is destined to go.

Mediated by an urge to emotionally comprehend himself through “doing”, the artist creates a pictorial impression that is at once nostalgic and hopeful and always in evolution as a vehicle to transport the viewer on a journey of their own imagination.

Influenced by the hues and compositions of classical Renaissance paintings, and surrealist unconscious automatism, Perez’s stylistic hybridity plays through in meticul