Perez Melero, Screen Print Poster Construction “Abstract Visions” Latin American Kinetic Art, 1986

Perez Melero, Spanish/Venezuelan (1938 – )
Born in Spain, PEREZ MELERO began his career in Venezuela where he lived from the late 1950’s until the early 1980’s. Maintaining workshops in Caracas and New York, he is an artist who exhibits his work internationally. He is in public collections including the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art, CANTV, Fundarte, the White House, the American Institute of Architects, and the Women in Military Service to America Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery.

ARTIST STATEMENT
My 3-dimensional constructions are built mostly from wood, paper, canvas and acrylic paint. Their ideas evolves from an organic and intuitive process. The final work is a combination of my creative vision and a highly organized process employing disciplines of geometry and applied design.
Viewers should interact physically with my constructions. They need to walk around them and view them from different perspectives. Up close one can see the detailed and intricate methods of their construction. From further back, one can appreciate their total effect.
Color and light and how they interact are central to my work. Color is painted on pieces of wood attached to a high-contrast geometric background. Light penetrates between them, reflecting color from one to another and on the background. These reflected colors seem to mix in the air and produce an impression of others. As light sources change angle or intensity, and as the viewer moves around the work, new colors can be perceived even though they aren’t really there. The interaction between color and light has produced an illusion. This relationship between color and light, in part, defines my work. His work is in the tradition of Latin American Modernity made famous by artists: Carlos Cruz-­Diez, Jesús Rafael Soto, Eduardo Ramírez-Villamizar, César Paternosto, Carlos Rojas, Omar Rayo, Fernando De Szyszlo, Julio Le Parc, Omar Carreno, Raul Lozza, and Gyula Kosice. and the Madi abstract art movement.

ONE MAN EXHIBITIONS (partial list)

Tommy Hilfiger Showroom, New York
New York Institute of Technology, New York
Eugenia Cucalon Gallery, New York
Consulate of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, New York
Women In Military Service to America Memorial, Arlington, VA
Union League Club, New York
American Institute of Architects, Washington D.C.
Ambassador Galleries, New York
American Association of Science & Technology, Washington D.C.
Greenwell Goetz Architects, Washington D.C.
Air Transport Association of America, Washington D.C.
Galleria Morantes, Alicante
Corner Gallery, World Trade Center, New York
Seton Hall University, South Orange New Jersey
Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art (MOCHA), New York
Venezuelan Tourist and Information Center, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Bogota; Fundarte, Bogota
Galeria Sorolla, Maracaibo; Teatro de la Opera, Maracay
Museum of Contemporary Art, Bogota; Asociacion de Periodista, San Crisobal;
CANTV, Caracas; Museo del Hipodromo de la Ricconada, Caracas
Centro Bellas Artes, Maracaibo; Sala Ocre, Caracas; Galeria CADAFE, Caracas
Museum of Zea, Medellin; Galeria El Parque, Medellin; Galeria Plaza Bolivar, Caracas
Universidad Central de Vzla.; Galerias Altimira, Fedecamaras, Fundacomun, Ateneo de Caracas
Colegio de Ingenieros, Puerto Ordaz y Ciudad Bolivar
Club Caronoco, Puerto Ordaz

GROUP SHOWS (partial list)

NoHo Gallery, New York
Yeshiva University School of Law, New York
Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo
Century Club, New York; Ambassador Galleries, New York
Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, New York
Oller Campeche Gallery, New York
Biennial of Printmaking, Cayman Gallery, New York; Art Students League, New York;
Columbia University Teachers College, New York;
Tossan Tossan Gallery, New York
Galeria Morantes, Alicante; Fundarte, Bogota
Museum of Contemporary Art, Bogota; Galeria Andre Bello, Caracas
Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid
Galeria Quinta Santander, Cucuta
Arturo Michelena National Hall of Painting, Caracas; Galeria Plaza Central, Caracas
Alejandro Otero Hall, Ciudad Bolivar

COLLECTIONS (partial list)

Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid
Museum of Contemporary Art, Bogota; Museum of Zea, Medellin
CANTV, Caracas; Fundarte, Caracas; Iberia Airlines, Caracas; Avensa, New York;
Rafael Rojas, Venro, New York; Fundarte, Caracas; Braunstein & Associates, Caracas
Theodore Vittoria, Vittoria & Purdy, LLP, New York; Richard Travers, Travers-O’Keefe, New York
Werner Haase, Madison Performance Group, New York
Peter Lehrer, Lehrer, McGovern & Bovis, New York; The Mondrian Hotel, Los Angeles
Air Transport Association of America, Washington D.C; The White House, Washington D.C.