Esteban Ramón Pérez

Descripción del Artista

Esteban Ramón Pérez (b. 1989, Los Angeles, CA) received his BFA in Art from the California Institute of the Arts in 2017, his MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University School of Art in 2019, and was recently a Studio Fellow at NXTHVN. Pérez lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Pérez’ practice utilizes his experience as a professional upholsterer and intertwines cultural and artistic sensibilities of his Chicano heritage with the visual language of postmodernism as well as issues rooted in postcolonial history. His work embodies facets of art histories, subjectivity, spirituality, and social issues. Statement My practice is an interrogation and excavation of subjective memory, spirituality, fragmented history, and social-political reality. Being raised in my dad’s upholstery shop, I utilize the skill set I gained as his apprentice to work with a multitude of materials including leather scraps, feathers, horns, and found objects into sculptures and sculptural paintings. Lowriding was my introduction to painting, and rascuache was my path into sculpture. My work is a tribute to the community that raised me, a testimony of my aspirations and what I’ve witnessed, and an attempt to relate.

Exposiciones en las que ha participado como artista

Eagle and Serpent

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