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.

ONE MAN EXHIBITIONS (partial list)

2004
Luz y Color, Consulate of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, New York
Et Situ (1) Studio 529, New York; Et Situ (2) Pricewaterhouse Coopers Gallery, Cardiff

2003
Tommy Hilfiger Showroom, New York

2002
New York Institute of Technology, New York

2001
Eugenia Cucalon Gallery, New York

2000
Consulate of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, New York
New York Institute of Technology, New York


1999
Women In Military Service to America Memorial, Arlington, VA
New York Institute of Technology, New York

1998
Union League Club, New York

1997
American Institute of Architects, Washington D.C.

1996
Union League Club, New York

1993
Ambassador Galleries, New York

1992
American Association of Science & Technology, Washington D.C.

1991
Greenwell Goetz Architects, Washington D.C.

1990
Air Transport Association of America, Washington D.C.

1989
Galleria Morantes, Alicante

1988
Corner Gallery, World Trade Center, New York

1987
Seton Hall University, South Orange New Jersey

1985
Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art (MOCHA), New York

1982
Venezuelan Tourist and Information Center, New York

1979
Museum of Contemporary Art, Bogota; Fundarte, Bogota

1978
Galeria Sorolla, Maracaibo; Teatro de la Opera, Maracay

1977
Museum of Contemporary Art, Bogota; Asociacion de Periodista, San Crisobal;
CANTV, Caracas; Museo del Hipodromo de la Ricconada, Caracas

1976
Centro Bellas Artes, Maracaibo; Sala Ocre, Caracas; Galeria CADAFE, Caracas

1975
Museum of Zea, Medellin; Galeria El Parque, Medellin; Galeria Plaza Bolivar, Caracas

1974
Universidad Central de Vzla.; Galerias Altimira, Fedecamaras, Fundacomun, Ateneo de Caracas

1973
Colegio de Ingenieros, Puerto Ordaz y Ciudad Bolivar

1972
Club Caronoco, Puerto Ordaz

GROUP SHOWS (partial list)

2003
NoHo Gallery, New York

2000
Yeshiva University School of Law, New York

1994
Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo

1993
Century Club, New York; Ambassador Galleries, New York

1992
Ambassador Galleries, New York; Abner Gallery, New York

1986
Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, New York

1985
Oller Campeche Gallery, New York

1984
Biennial of Printmaking, Cayman Gallery, New York; Art Students League, New York;
Columbia University Teachers College, New York;

1983
Tossan Tossan Gallery, New York

1982
Biennial of Printmaking, San Juan; First Festival of SoHo, New York; Cayman Gallery, New York

1980
Galeria Morantes, Alicante; Fundarte, Bogota

1976
Museum of Contemporary Art, Bogota; Galeria Andre Bello, Caracas

1975
Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid

1974
Galeria Quinta Santander, Cucuta

1973
Arturo Michelena National Hall of Painting, Caracas; Galeria Plaza Central, Caracas

1972
Alehandro Otero Hall, Ciudad Bolivar

COLLECTIONS (partial list)

Spanish Musium 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.

COMMISSIONS (partial list)

American Institute of Architects, Washington D.C.

Women In Military Service for America Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA

Air Transport Association of America, Washington D.C.

Polygram Records, New York

Centro Altamira parking tower, Caracas