Formations
The color of local holidays, markets, crafts, fruits and foods are recurring themes in Juanita Pérez-Adelman’s work. She has lived in Mexico since 1987. Her work is very particular in that figurative themes are treated from an abstract perspective.
Her paintings have the rich chromatic properties that pertain to Mexico and Colombia (the reds, yellows and greens) which are harmoniously mixd together, reflecting the joyous and the ordinary. Her work pays homage to indigenous textiles, whether from Colombia, Ecuador, Chiapas or Navajo.
Her paintings have the rich chromatic properties that pertain to Mexico and Colombia (the reds, yellows and greens) which are harmoniously mixd together, reflecting the joyous and the ordinary. Her work pays homage to indigenous textiles, whether from Colombia, Ecuador, Chiapas or Navajo.
Pérez-Adelman is indifferent to the boundaries of Latin American art. She is equally affected by the temples of Machu Pichu as she is by the paintings of Rufino Tamayo or the culinary dish from Puebla: mole.
She recognizes the abstract influence in her paintings derived from Hispanic American art and she brings to life the sensations of the market place in her cloths, its smells, the screams, the explosion of color, the glitter of jewelry on women, the trash and the tastes. Pérez-Adelman’s work centers on the local within a global world, on the specific differences of each place, but also the common past that the whole continent shares.
She recognizes the abstract influence in her paintings derived from Hispanic American art and she brings to life the sensations of the market place in her cloths, its smells, the screams, the explosion of color, the glitter of jewelry on women, the trash and the tastes. Pérez-Adelman’s work centers on the local within a global world, on the specific differences of each place, but also the common past that the whole continent shares.