(DIS)(EX) tracted:  new work by Alvaro Perez
Ft. Worth, Texas Artist


Exhibition dates: June 1st- June 29th, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, June 1st, 2007 from 6-9PM

Alvaro Perez	2006-2007

- PRESS RELEASE-

(DIS) (EX) tracted - new works by Alvaro Perez

 June 1st- June 29th, 2007
Opening Reception: 6-9 PM Friday, June 1st, 2007 

      ART DEPOT presents (DIS) (EX) tracted, works by Alvaro Perez.  Perez is a Texas Tech University Graduate with a Bachelors degree in painting and a Master’s in Fine Art from Texas Christian University.  Perez's rich paintings border between chaos and order as they seek to describe the hidden tensions that pervade the world around us. The exhibition can be seen from Friday, June 1st through June 29th.  The reception is part of the citywide First Friday Art Trail on Friday, June 1st, 2007 from 6PM until 9PM.  The exhibition is free and open to the public.

          Perez says of his visceral and layered works, “These paintings represent the complexity of the world and the extensive diversity it houses.  It is with a similarly complex usage of paint that I strive to capture the intrigue that is intertwined within our own existence yet so distant from our everyday thoughts.  Painting towards a sense of vague familiarity, I depict the biological, social, and structural growth and decay that affects all things.  Each canvas/panel is a microscopically staged meeting between the natural and synthetic world. 

“These works are satirical and not activist in nature,” says Perez.  “I hope not to preach for a better future, but instead point a cynical finger at the one which awaits us, nervously laughing all the while.”

 5/10/07

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