Discipline: Visual Art – painting

Perla Krauze

Discipline: Visual Art – painting
Region: Mexico City, MEXICO
MacDowell Fellowships: 2012, 2018

Perla Krauze, a multidisciplinary artist, works in various media, always exploring issues of time and memory. Using different materials she works recovering and making new traces and imprints, exploring the ephemeral and the permanent, the natural and the artificial, and the urban/natural landscape.

Krauze works with the overlooked; marks and traces that become visible. She works on each site with discarded materials which show traces of time. Through the practice of drawing and painting, placing and installing objects, she continues to develop the transformation of the exhibit site through the duration of each of her exhibitions.

Recent important exhibitions were in the Museo Amparo in Puebla ( 2017), the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City ( 2011), and the Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, (2012) . She has been a recipient of the Fonca Arts Council Grant ( Sistema Nacional de Creadores) on several occasions, and of several artist residencies: Banff Art Center in Canada; Red Gate Artist Residence in Beijing, China; Echigo-Tsumari Triennial in Japan; Santa Fe Arts Institute in Santa Fe, NM; and MacDowell.

Studios

Alexander

Perla Krauze worked in the Alexander studio.

Originally designed to be a visual art gallery, this facility was built in memory of the late John White Alexander (1856-1915) and funded by Elizabeth Alexander and their son James. John White Alexander was highly regarded as a portrait painter and, in the early part of the 20th century, served…

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