Rafi Perez is an award winning contemporary artist who creates emotionally charged works. He is best known for his use of texture and bold color palates in striking pieces that each has a story to tell.
Rafi is a self-taught artist who's sense of adventure and constant experimentation in his studio has led him to develop a painting technique with unique characteristics.
His ambition with his paintings is to use symbolic shapes, figures, texture and colors to express his deepest emotions and passion for life. This leads him to apply paint to the canvas in unusual and interesting ways. His paintings also require layers upon layers of paint to create a sensuous and turbulent surface texture that is as vital and as complex as life itself. He uses color to allure an imaginative and emotional response from the viewer. His dynamic depictions of the human experience and expressions are the product of many days of working and reworking.
His Paintings represent the discovery of mysteries of the subconscious mind that are part of his own personal journey in life. The art holds the promise of dreams, visions, fears, intangibles, and will. It is a collaboration of the mind and spirit. It is designed to speak to the viewer in a confidential language. Once a piece of art grabs you, you cannot help but interact with it; it demands contemplation, study, feeling, and flights of fancy.
"He is driven to communicate visual qualities of perhaps the external environment which offers us freedom and inspiration as we cope with awesome focal points in the vast open space surrounding our existence. He attempts to show the internal passion of human sensuality that brings quality to our senses stimulating and extending our consciousness elevating life as individuals or sharing space with others around us. Ultimately Rafi seems to convey simple sophistication and intellectual freedom as he uses the visual language to express the human potential." - Spiros Zachos (PO10TIAL Magazine)
Rafi's work can be found in myriad of public and private art collections both in the United States and abroad, He currently lives and works in Pensacola, Florida.
2015
- You Are Here: The Strange Curiosity Of Right Now. Solo Art Exhibition. Marty Campbell Galley, Pensacola FL
- Mahabhuta Yoga Festival Featured Artist, Pensacola FL
2014
- Live Painting At Vinyl Music Hall, Pensacola FL
- New Blues Show. Blue Morning Gallery, Pensacola FL
- Artist Gone Wild, NWFAS, Pensacola FL
2013
- Milton River Walk, COM, Milton Florida - Awarded
- Artmore Gallery Event, Atmore AL
- The Rotation Of Painting,The Yard, East Hill Yard, Pensacola FL
- Artist Gone Wild, NWFAS, Pensacola FL
- PMA (Pensacola Museum of Art) Members Show, Pensacola Florida
2012
-Art From The Heart, Gourmet Dinner Night, Pensacola, FL
-ArtPartyX, Pensacola, FL
-Gulf Breeze Celebrates The Arts, Gulf Breeze FL
2004
- Avant-Grande, MCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) Warehouse, Chicago, IL
