Zone Heavy Duty
by Karin Perez
Oil on Canvas
Karin Perez
The featured artist for the moth of June at Harrington Arts is Karin Perez. Ms. Perez is an Israeli born artist currently living and working in Paris. Her large format paintings dissect life in urban environments, and the lonliness they create.
In the urban environment, Perez believes, "One is always lonely even when she is surrounded by loved ones. The city's are invading on the space of the individual, the walls are closing on the open spaces, there is no more air, no more communication, and less and less relationships." Working in acrylic on canvas, her palette of heavy reds and weighty grays convey these feelings of estrangement and isolation.
Perez's work has a rhythm to it that comes from her lifetime involvement with music. After leaving the Israeli army she became a professional dancer, influenced also by rock, hip hop, R&B, and street music. These urban sounds infiltrated her work as she moved into painting.
Please contact the gallery for more information about Ms. Perez.
"I'm mostly inspired from the world that surround's me. I'm inspired as well from Architecture and design. I'm fascinated by big metropolitan cities with their strength and domination.
I adore the power that they are projecting and on the other hand I feel intimidated by that power. I see the world through a lens that is not necessarily bright, as in my life I have overcome many obstacles. I think that one is always lonely even when he is surrounded by loved ones, and having to deal with Urban lifestyle. In order to transfer those feelings I need the use of saturated colors, contrasts and strong angles.
I wish to impress here that, as an artist being able to paint, to build, to model and to create, is an essential step in the eternal search as an artist.
Art is a way of realizing myself and a vital contact between the inner self and the outside world. It allows me to express myself through colors and landscapes, something that words cannot express.
I think that my works are correlating perfectly with the theme of the exhibition, as I'm dealing with the individual in the environment.
The cities are invading the space of the individual, the walls are closing on the open spaces, and there is no more air, no more communication and less and less relationships. I'm showing an industrial world and loneliness."