Veronica Perez is a multidisciplinary artist living in Maine. Utilizing synthetic hair as well as kitschy and other unconventional materials in her sculptural works, she creates intense personal moments by means of material hybridization and ideals of beauty. Material fragility echoes sentiments of a lost self and at the same time comments on contemporary Latinx and feminist issues.
Recently, she has been working at the intersection of identity, vulnerability, protection, and power through the facade of dark absurdity using materials such as sugar, fake hair, chain-link fences, and fake sunflowers. By using mediums that are classically considered “nonart” materials, she opens a window into the wide range of what art can be and finds beauty in such seemingly commonplace objects.
In 2020, she was awarded the Ellis-Beauregard Fellowship in the Visual Arts; in 2021, she was a resident at the Black Seed Studio in Portland, Maine as a part of the Indigo Arts Alliance David C. Driskell Fellowship. She will be presenting her first solo exhibition in 2022 at the Center for Maine Contemporary Arts in Rockland, Maine.
