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Mario A. Pérez

He is currently a research specialist at a multinational Twin Cities corporation. Mario was born and raised in El Salvador, Central America. He initiated his college education in the United States at the age of 18. Drawing, watercolors and oil on canvas were explored by him at a very early age under the guidance of artist Consuelo Salgado in El Salvador. He won several local awards. Mario's artistic output decreased dramatically during his years of science education. It was renewed by his collaboration with the Minnesota based Latino Artist Group. The intent of his work is to raise awareness and understanding of the passions that afflict Latin American society in general, but are applicable to others as well. Most often used techniques are oil on canvas and mixed media. Surrealistic and Constructivistic influences can be observed through some of his work. Dripping, pouring and pixelating techniques are also practiced by the artist.

Address: 81 Carriage LN. Burnsville, MN 55306

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Fossil

5x8 ft. Oil and acrylic on canvas. This work is about petroleum, some of its derivatives and consequences. It was painted after coming back from Mexico D.F., a city that I had not visited for almost twenty years. A somewhat cubistic approach to a landscape and a human body made by dripping can be observed on the canvas along with other imagery.

On Top of The World

3x4ft. Oil on Canvas. Portrait.

1954

24x30”. Oil and acrylic on canvas. 1954 is the year of the death of Frida Kahlo and Jackson Pollock. Also in this year, a mandate was issued to allow colored people to sit anywhere in schoolbuses. The three events are related by mobility and passion. Frida was afflicted from a young age by spine injuries suffered during an accident with a railcar. Her unrelenting pain was the subject of several of her paintings. Jackson Pollock, was killed by a severe blow to the head suffered as he flew out of his car and hit a tree during a traffic accident.

The Day of The Cross

3x4 ft. Oil and acrylic on canvas. The day of the cross is a celebration in Latin America. In El Salvador for example, it is celebrated on May 3. It was originally intended to make native Americans give reverence to the cross rather than to various idols or icons that resembled their many deities. During this day children are dressed in what is portrayed now as native customary dressing. Offerings and ornaments are placed around well decorated crosses. The yuxtaposition here is with the US-Mexico Border, where in any night, there may be as much as ten thousand adventurers trying to cross the border.

About the US-Mexico Border: The US-Mexico border is some two thousand miles long, running from San Diego, California, in the west, to Brownsville, Texas, in the east. Between 1993 and 1996, it is estimated that at least 1,185 migrants died in the attempt to cross the border, and it is feared that the true number is far higher since many bodies are never found. Causes of death include drowning (in the Rio Grande or the many irrigation canals), traffic accidents, dehydration, heat stroke and hypothermia.

Source: Amnesty International - Report - AMR 51/03/98

May 1998

Reptation

3x4ft. Oil and acrylic on canvas. Reptation is named after the work of Doi and Edwards on the motion of polymer chains and the scaling laws of nobel laureate Pierre DeGennes. The scaling laws for long polymer molecules in the melt describe the time and viscosity dependence on molecular weight, as it is required for complete renewal of molecular conformation as it passes through an imaginary constraining tube, which is formed by a maze of other molecular cross sections. The main theme of the painting is shown by the dominating trace. This was intended to represent the life’s journey of a human male (Reptilian as we are sometimes refered to) as he passes through many encounters at every kink of the trace.

The Citizen

2x2ft. Oil on sheetrock. This is a self portrait and it is a celebration of my “naturalization”. US Citizenship should not be taken for granted by US originals. The legend at the bottom of the portrait reads: “US citizen by choice, Mars by gender, and The World by birth”. The technique used is what I call “pixelation”. Single and very heavy brushstrokes registered horizontally and vertically are the main features of pixelation. Pixelation is an offshoot of the techniques that were made popular by the great Chuck Close.

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