BIO
Karen Perry. Mexico 1984. Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts at the National School of Arts "La Esmeralda" in Mexico City. She has received grants from the National System of Art Creators in 2018-2021, 2024-2026 in sculpture, and Young Creators Grant from the National Fund for Culture and Arts in 2012-2013, 2015-2016. Perry has accompanied her professional production as a teacher since 2006 at different public Universities, and currently works as a professor of the Bachelor of Arts and Design at the National Autonomous University of Mexico campus Morelia. Her work has been shown in multiple individual and collective exhibitions in Mexico, Chile, the USA, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Germany, The Netherlands, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Rep. of South Korea and China. She has been in Artist in Residency at “Serlachius” and “Arteles Creative Center” in Finland, “Viarco” in Portugal, “KIRA” and “Banff Art Centre” in Cánada, “Vermont Studio Center” and “BBAX Gallery” in the USA.
STATEMENT
When I review my work in relation to my thematic interests and the conceptual development I have been pursuing over the last 15 years of my career, I realize my emphasis on the symbolic and formal correlations between elements that produce structures that can be interpreted by those familiar with the language in which they are expressed.
I work with a process of association between form, matter, and concept that moves between seemingly different materials, while maintaining my interest in their ability to be reorganized into new forms that become interpretations centered on a specific theme.
Puzzles and weaving are activities with an associative component that produces meaning. The correlation between their parts and their meanings compose forms and structures that, when contrasted or reorganized, constitute the aesthetic rhetoric of my work.
My interest in activities and techniques that are on the fringes of the innovative artistic spectrum—because they are elements associated with play or craftsmanship—has led me to trace their origins and history and to determine both protagonist and antagonistic relationships between them.
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Karen Perry