Juan Perdiguero: Perros Fragmentados/ Fragmented Dogs

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Opening Reception: Friday, September 8^th, 2006, 6-9pm

Artist Talk: Saturday, September 9^th, 2006 1-2pm

On View: September 8^th – October 14^th, 2006

Acting as a surrogate for the human form, the fragmented greyhounds of Juan Perdiguero’s Perros Fragmentados/ Fragmented Dogs speak to contemporary alienation, the expressive body of the greyhound a metaphoric illustration of man’s existential longing. Both visceral and sensual, the dogs allude to man’s most elemental emotions and behaviors, the true spirit of being manifested in their sinuous anatomy.

Using a unique process of drawing with etching ink on photographic paper, Perdiguero’s work is a confluence of painting, drawing and photography, the luminescent results alluding to the old-masters and revealing Perdiguero’s classical training. Perros Fragmentados/ Fragmented Dogs is a grouping of drawings completed while Perdiguero was a ThreeWalls resident this past summer. Each drawing reads as a cropped vignette, re-presented as an installation where the images appear to be ‘in conversation’ but are ultimately estranged, caged by the white expanse that surrounds them.

Juan Perdiguero was a ThreeWalls summer resident artist in July and August of 2006. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Galeria Metropolitana, Galeria Artificial, Exit Art, The Artist Network, the Burchfield-Penney Art Center and the Albright-Knox Gallery as well as being included in the public and private collections of the Castellani Art Museum, The Burchfield-Penney Art Center and the David Bowie Art Collection. Perdiguero has been the recipient of grants from SCAC, Artworks!, Art Matters Inc. as well as residencies at CEPA Gallery and the Hangar Barcelona International Residency. Perdiguero is an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at Oswego.

Links:

Perros Fragmentados exhibition booklet (pdf)

 

Perdiguero represented by Marcia Wood Gallery

Perdiguero represented by Ann Nathan Gallery

Juan Perdiguero's Website

 

Perro Negro Marfil

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Perro Negro Litho

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Perro Negro Sambra