JOSE FELIX PEREZ

Swampspace Gallery

3940 N. Miami Ave.

Miami, FL 33127

PRESS RELEASE MAY 14, 2018

ART EXHIBITION OF JOSE FELIX PEREZ - RECENT PAINTINGS AT SWAMPSPACE IN THE DESIGN DISTRICT

Opening Reception May 25 7-11pm

Jose Felix Perez - The Magic Hour

“The Everglades is a test. If we pass it, we may get to keep the planet.”

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

On the evolution of American landscape painting, Jose Felix Perez is perhaps best defined as the Charles Burchfield of the swamp. A Miami native, Jose attended New World School of the Arts where he readily embraced romantic landscape painting to depict the threatened wilderness of our tropical home in all of its wild and colorful vibrancy. He follows the legendary Highwaymen and Backus with new distinctive renditions of our most precious resource. Spaces between colors and rhythm of shapes are interwoven with a hypnotic tranquility of our alluring and seemingly endless natural environment. Perez deftly blends a palette of prismatic colored brilliance to create enduring compositions more akin to Jackson Pollack than Clyde Butcher. Jose proclaims, "During the magic hour, that perfect time that photographers and painters embrace, everything seems bathed in a crisp bronze light. The magic hour is elusive and fragile, just as the tropical nature that surrounds us is threatened from every direction." With his unique vision of our beloved river of grass, we are privileged to witness nature at its best, be it within our backyards or deep in a cypress hammock. For his first solo show at Swampspace, Jose Felix Perez offers recent works for your allegorical mythic experience.

Special thanks: Miami Design District

Overgrown 2018 Jose Felix Perez