aimee perez
Aimee Perez
b. 1955
Havana, Cuba
lives and works in Miami, FL, USA
Aimee Perez was born in Habana Cuba in 1955. She left for the United States when she was twelve with her family through the Freedom Flights and grew up in Miami in the Cuban immigrant community.
As a young adult she won the Gold Key Award in painting and several honorable mentions as she continued her pursuit of the arts during her college years. In 1989 she moved to Mexico City and continued painting and exhibiting with Cuban and Mexican artists. In 1997 she was invited to participate as a guest artist in the studio of Mexican sculptor Jose Sacal and it is here she begins to work for the first time in 3D with clay.
She returned to Miami in 2005 and continued her work winning several awards for her figurative ceramics in the state of Florida. Perez has been praised for her command of gestures making her sculptures expressionistic and powerful which combined with the juxtaposition to found objects creates an organic symbiosis.
She says her work is her voice, a dialogue with the observer and simultaneously a self-exploration.
“I work with human forms – with the gestures and emotions, lives and relationships – that serve as archetypes by transcending the context of their story. Through the exploration of contemporary, religious and biblical themes, I create sculptures that explore spiritual truth and the paradoxical truths of suffering and redemption, grief and comfort. The mediums I use include various types of clays fired at high or low temperatures and surfaced with oxides washes, slips, terra sigillata, engobes and glazes. I have also been known to to add encaustic, wax, metals, glass, and found objects to add layers to a piece.” - Aimee Perez
Her work can be found in many private collections in the United States, Europe and Mexico and in permanent collections including The Bennett Women Collection, Florida International University Honors College Collection, Lowe Museum of Art, Huntsville Museum of Art and Museum of Contemporary Arts of the Americas.
The Crucible
Lilith Unearthed
Deity
Diary of A Fall
Arachne
Red River