Txutxo Perez is a visual artist, printmaker and painter for the last 35 years. He uses oil and water based materials on his paintings as well as different printmaking techniques and currently gliding.
Gold leaf was introduced in Mexico by the Spanierds and used to show dominance and spiritual alienation, Txutxo’s father mastered the trade and passed it to him, together with a lot of books and magazines about Asian Art. These elements were present in his life before he started communicating, and it wasn’t until he arrived in SF that not only the Mission District but also JapanTown and ChinaTown became an influence to his vision.
Growing up in a popular neighborhood influenced by punk, surrealism and dada art, breeding a ‘callejero’ -from the streets- aesthetic, Txutxo blends the old technique with modern day events.
The golden surfaces are backgrounds for surreal images where characters display human emotions, vices, and virtues making them terrenal, not sacred. Is a ludic, open space where diverse ethnic roots,cultural symbols and everyday stories collide like in the big Cities.
His themes come from all kinds of media vision along his own experiences as an immigrant.
AWARDS
Senate of the State of California, Certificate Of Recognition in Arts 2001.
EDUCATION
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas. Mexico City.
BFA
08 1976- 08 1981 .
SKILLS
Competence in a wide range of artistic media and techniques (i.e. painting, drawing, collage, screen printing)
Ability to actively engage & assess people who are experiencing homelessness, active drug use, mental illness, and other barriers to stability and health utilizing the modalities of harm reduction and self- help.
EXPERIENCE
Hospitality House,San Francisco ,CA.94103
Community Arts Program.
10 2006- present.
Studio Assistant
The Community Arts Program is the City’s only free fine arts studio for low-income artists, where all can hone their artistic talents, through open studio hours, skills workshops, ceramics and silk-screening classes, and gallery space for artists to exhibit and sell their work.
Under the supervision of the Program Manager, the Studio Assistant will provide artistic access, peer counseling, and advocacy in the Community Arts Program to support artists and motivate them to create art and to improve their overall physical, emotional, and economic health.
SUB/Mission Art Space, San Francisco ,CA.94110
02 2005 – 08 2015
Curator
Keep and maintain an active calendar of Art shows.
Interact with Institutions, artist and communitarian cultural groups.
Supervise the optimus mapping and illumination for shows.
In charge of the finances from tickets sold, artwork sold or rented.
