Marnie Pérez
"Línea laxodrómica*" (1999)
"Línea laxodrómica*" (1999)
Printmaker, designer and creator of installations. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Printmaking and Art Education at Escuela de Artes Plásticas in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1993 and in 1997 she earned her Master's degree in Graphic Design at the Academia San Carlos of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. She also took courses at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia in Spain and a multidisciplinary workshop on graphics at Fundación Pilar y Loan Miró in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Upon returning to Puerto Rico after completing her master's degree in 1997, she develops an interest in the integration of graphics into other mediums to achieve more possibilities of expression in her artistic work, attaining several solo exhibitions and acquisitions of her works. She has taught courses in graphics, drawing and painting to children, adolescents and adults. In 2004 she created a Public Art Project for Urban Train of the city of San Juan. The use of grids, patterns and textures of maps as a result of explorations and travels to different cities, are the most common elements in her artistic work. Fascination with the translation or urban displacements, the addresses and life gestated in each of them, end in an internal reflection on the passage of time, the transformation of living spaces, the preservation of memories and the different perspectives of human thought.