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Polly Perez |
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Print media and packaging from various cultures and eras, political propaganda, historical and scientific drawings, pop art, industrial design, and recycling are my influences. Examining consumption of the visual as a unique commodity is my curiosity. I approach it like a scientific process, with results depending on chains of small experiments.
I favor the use of recycled and found objects, especially old slides, books, advertising, and used fabrics in my current work. The shortened life cycle of goods in the global marketplace begs intervention - after being sold, bought, and used – things can become something different in their afterlife. With a sewing machine, tape, and intuition I test how feasible it is to intervene.
I feel like I straddle an invisible fence between cultures and histories; soaking in what I see in the world at large, mainly through print media, hybridizing it to my specs, and then turning it loose upon itself. It is either adulteration or making-do with what is at hand when there is lots at hand. Seeing things being thrown away as a byproduct of the current mass digital conversion of libraries, print media, and photographs is the perfect way to have lots at hand. |
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University of Texas at Dallas |
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Oh6 Art Collective - Dallas, TX |
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500x Artist Collective - Dallas, TX |
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Mountain View College, Dallas TX |
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Assistant Curator of Education |
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El Paso Museum of Art - El Paso, TX |
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2008 Versionfest08 NFO XPO. Motherland Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 BopLiCity. Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, Dallas, TX |
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2008 Screened Expressions:Serie Print Project Retrospective. Mexican American Cultural Center, Austin, TX
2008 Under New Management:500x Members' Show - Dallas, TX
2008 Good n’ Gooder, Polly Perez and Eric Tosten. Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, Dallas, TX
2008 New Art/e Nuevo, UTSA, San Antonio, TX
2008 Visual Speed Bump Tour - Dallas, TX
2008 30th Anniversary Show - 500x Gallery, Dallas, TX
2007 Saturday Night Fever - 500x Gallery, Dallas, TX
2007 Soft Highway - Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, Dallas, TX
2007 Inside/Out. Richland College, Dallas, TX
2007 Ojo Dos. Brookhaven College, Dallas, TX
2007 Savage Intimacies. Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, Dallas, TX
2007 Introductions North. Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX
2007 MFA in Chicago. Polvo Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Winterfresh. Plush Gallery, Dallas, TX
2007 Besame Mucho, Besa mi Culo. El Centro College, Dallas, TX
2006 88 Numbers. Kettle Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
2006 Ojo: Modern Texas Latino Artists. Richland College, Dallas, TX
2006 Big as Night. Tyler Street Lofts, Dallas, TX
2006 Bad and Beautiful. Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, Dallas, TX
2006 InterPlay. La Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
2006 ‘Z’ Show. Tarrant County College, Fort Worth, TX
2006 Summer Show & Critic’s Choice. Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX
2006 Trunk Show. Oh6 Art Collective, Dallas, TX
2006 Patternage. Pigeon-Stone Projects Gallery, Dallas, TX
2006 Open Show. 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
2006 New Works - Oh6 Art Collective. 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
2006 DRIVER. Bath House Cultural Center Gallery, Dallas, TX
2005 'I KLD JFK' Conspiracy Show - Oh6 Art Collective. Continental Gin Gallery, Dallas, TX
2005 DIY Art Fair. Jeanette Kennedy Gallery, Dallas, TX
2005 New Artists Show. Professional Members League of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
2005 Star Raiders… University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
2005 Summer Show & Critic’s Choice. Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX
2005 con.TEXT.ual. Oh6 Art Collective, Casket Factory, Dallas, TX
2005 Mission Control. Oh6 Art Collective, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
2004 Super 8. Oh6 Art Collective, Jeanette Kennedy Gallery, Dallas, TX
2004 Well, Red. Oh6 Art Collective, Casket Factory, Dallas, TX
2004 Inaugural Show. Decorazón Gallery, Dallas, TX |
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Artist Printmaking Residency - Coronado Studio, Austin, TX |
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National Endowment for the Arts - The Big Read: Bless Me, Ultima |
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Collaborative Artist Installation - Mighty Fine Arts Gallery |
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Through The NEA and Latino Cultural Center of Dallas, a project involving a group of artists building an installation piece based on the reading of Rudolfo Anaya's book 'Bless Me, Ultima." |
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Martin, M. “It’s a Savage World” Dallas Observer (12 July 2007) |
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Tosten, E. Dallas Art Cast Issue no. 3 (March 2007). http://www.dallasartcast.net/bin/main.html |
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Feldman, M. ”Art Booty” Dallas Observer (28 February 2007) |
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2006 Alpha Male – Collaborative set design. University of Texas at Dallas
2006 Never a Reference Point – Collaborative set design. University of Texas at Dallas and South Side at Lamar, Dallas, TX |
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