Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 18th, 2:30 - 3:30 pm
Mezzanine: Magaly Perez (NY) Paintings
Visiting Artist Painting Workshop, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 3:30 pm, Room 8

Magaly Perez was born in Havana, Cuba, and currently divides her time between Brooklyn and upstate New York. She received her BFA in printmaking from the Philadelphia College of Art in Pennsylvania, and attained her MFA at Washington University in St Louis. Since the 1980s she has exhibited primarily in New York galleries.

Her recent work is influenced by the time she spends in rural settings, and her focus on increasingly small parts of the natural world has led to forms that reflect universal structures and relationships, regardless of scale. Perez says of her paintings:

“What began with observations of natural phenomena such as light at dusk in the garden or a swarm of bees around a hive, has grown into a more abstract investigation. The scale has changed from a long distance to a closer inspection; from the tree to the leaf, from sun to cell. As a support to this shift in perspective, I have become interested in Tantric art, domestic architecture, and gardens. These disciplines, like my paintings, often begin with schematic plans which define a space, whether spiritual or physical. I am influenced by Tantric art as a visual representation of a cosmic order. It is the total resolution of opposite forces as the two become one.”