George P. Perez
Spring 2024 Cycle Honorable Mention – Photography
Bentonville, AR @georgepperez
From the series "Gradient Language", Various sizes, Ceramic, Photo courtesy of Artist
Excited by scratched and degradation of picture surfaces, "No Permanent Gradient", is various ceramic tiles pressed, molded, and inspired from a tortilla press. Each piece is glazed with a copper oxide matte glaze that gives off flashes of color on the surface. The process goes through a kiln firing and later emphasized through a hand held torch to continuously manipulate pink, green, red, orange, and the blue flashes of color on the surfaces of the pieces.
The larger circular grided slabs works were created at ClayBreak, an Artist Residency that works with artists whoms background are outside of ceramic.
Projects were presented at Cranbrook Musuem MI and at The Carnegie OH, Photo's courtesy of Artist and Jesse Ly
Artist Statement Biography
George P. Perez is a first-generation Mexican American artist that uses photography and material structures to interpret another type of fluent language. Through process, play, and interpretations of his bilingual upbringing; Perez creates patterns, gradients, and visual structures rooting from mundane photography and everyday practice. He bridges a view of neglected photography and sentimental characteristics to reconstruct their significance and importance. In the studio, He creates systems and scenarios utilizing images, in the form of collage, installations, and sculptures. Perez points towards photography, explores multiple mediums, reconstructs its material makeup—all while navigating, in and out of those languages.
Perez is from Boulder Colorado where he received his BFA from the University of Colorado in 2014. In 2023, he received his MFA under the Gilbert Fellowship from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at RedLine Contemporary Art Center, the Children’s Museum in Denver, and was a recipient of the MCA Denver Octopus Initiative Grant in 2018. Currently, Perez is a Photo-Facilitator with Working Assumptions based out of Berkeley, CA, part of the M12 cohort-- an award-winning artist collective that specializes in rural aesthetics and landscape, and located in NWA teaching Studio Arts at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
George P. Perez is a first-generation Mexican American artist that uses photography and material structures to interpret another type of fluent language. Through process, play, and interpretations of his bilingual upbringing; Perez creates patterns, gradients, and visual structures rooting from mundane photography and everyday practice. He bridges a view of neglected photography and sentimental characteristics to reconstruct their significance and importance. In the studio, He creates systems and scenarios utilizing images, in the form of collage, installations, and sculptures. Perez points towards photography, explores multiple mediums, reconstructs its material makeup—all while navigating, in and out of those languages.
Perez is from Boulder Colorado where he received his BFA from the University of Colorado in 2014. In 2023, he received his MFA under the Gilbert Fellowship from Cranbrook Academy of Art. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at RedLine Contemporary Art Center, the Children’s Museum in Denver, and was a recipient of the MCA Denver Octopus Initiative Grant in 2018. Currently, Perez is a Photo-Facilitator with Working Assumptions based out of Berkeley, CA, part of the M12 cohort-- an award-winning artist collective that specializes in rural aesthetics and landscape, and located in NWA teaching Studio Arts at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
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