Félix Perdomo
Félix Perdomo studied Graphic Design and Abstract Expressionism at both the National School of Fine Arts in Santo Domingo and The Pratt Graphic Institute in New York. His artistic style and iconography is a blending of Dominican history and culture, contemporary signs of exile and the search for identity. The ancient sources are noted by the rudimentary stick figures and markings appropriated from pictographs drawn on cave walls of the Taíno Indian territory. The repetitive white sail boat is a contemporary sign of exile commonly used by Caribbean artists. Other figures, such as the appropriated Keith Haring figure and a human face trapped in a box, reference social issues of gender and identity. Although Perdomo titles the work “the world of imaginary beings”, it can be viewed as a present day pictograph of Caribbean history and the convergence of contemporary Taíno, European, American and African people.
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