About Hugo Perez
Hugo Perez (Born 1976, Guatemala
City, Guatemala) makes paintings,
drawings, photographs and
sculptures. He is an artist who
brings to life the observable world
around us, but one, which we barely
feel important enough to note. From
the stars in the sky to the soil we dig
in to grow our food. Perez creates
works with themes who repeat, as
the subjects we see in daily life are
repetitive bringing to attention the
mundane and unremarkable into the
spotlight. As his work elucidates the
things we normally walk past, we
will start to notice the rhythms of
our day is in the familiarity of what
we see again and again but
different day to day. His paintings
show the beauty and tragedy of
what we can often miss. The artist
leaves us with a mix of conflicting
feelings and thoughts. He is a visual
journalist of our public spaces,
spaces where anyone can do
anything at any given moment: the
space that no one owns, the space
that belongs to everybody, the
economically uninteresting. His
works range in subject from the
energy of the sun, to the landscape
below and show the ordinary and
the absurd and how they sometimes
intersect.
