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Paint Box Art Club Meeting
The Paint Box Art Club consist of local artists of the Lehigh Valley and surrounding counties.
Our next meeting will be held on May 26th, 2015 from 7-9pm, at the Nazareth Center for the Arts, 30 Belvidere St., Nazareth, PA.
Artist Rigo Peralta will be giving a demo. Rigo Peralta is a surreal artist. Originally from the Dominican Republic, he now works and lives in Allentown, Pennsylvania. His work has been exhibited throughout the USA, Europe and the Caribbean.Rigo’s art is rich with symbolic imagery and majesty often depicting the contradictory aspects of human nature. Through his art he tries to reconcile our primal or magical nature within the confines of modernization and technology. Each painting is infused with the human, mystical and mechanical aspects of our lives. His use of color and detail is unsurpassed and will have you appreciating something new each time you look at one of his paintings.
Rigo Peralta – Artist Statement
Art for me is a spontaneous act of existential discovery and imagination. My paintings are labyrinths of the real and surreal. Through richly charged, rhythmic compositions and a palette steeped in the vibrant colors of my Dominican homeland, I blend diverse cultural references, symbolic imagery, mythology, and organic, mechanical, and abstract forms. I plumb the depths of nature and human existence and create fantastical worlds in which I lay bare and seek to reconcile the tensions between our primal and spiritual natures and a world increasingly controlled by machines, technology and political upheaval. I explore nature, humanity and spirituality in everything I create.While I am also a print maker, painting is my primary medium. My creative process is organic. I do not make preliminary sketches. Rather, I come to the bare canvas with the creative urge to paint. I lay the canvas on the floor and build layers of color and texture. From these layers, ideas and forms coalesce and a narrative thread emerges.
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A predominant theme I explore in my work is the relentless push and pull between human and machine: mechanical forms unite with and invade the body; industry and technology erode our spirituality and free will; our connection to nature and to each other is threatened. But ultimately, my work is about the persistence of nature and the beauty, strength and spiritual essence of human existence.
Meetings are free. Club membership is $15.00.