PERLA KRAUZE
Mexico City, 1953
She studied Graphic Design at the National School of Plastic Arts of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In 1977 He moved to London to obtain a diploma in textiles from Goldsmiths College, and in 1992 he returned to that city as a student of the Master of Fine Arts at Chelsea College of Arts.
His work has been exhibited both in Mexico and abroad in solo and group exhibitions, among which are: Materia lyrical: Memory / Accumulation Processes (Amparo Museum, Puebla, 2017) Archipelagos (Gallery Quetzal, Oaxaca, 2016), Structures / Materials / Space (Diagrama CDMX, 2014); Suspended Blues (Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, 2013); Structure / Imprints (Howard Scott Gallery, New York, 2013); Pino Suarez 3, Memory and Tours (Museum of Mexico City, 2012); Huellas y Trayectos (retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, CDMX 2010); José Alvarado 24A / Guerrero 27 Nte. (Museum of the City of Querétaro, 2010); Imprints (Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe, 2010); Traces of the Santa Veracruz (National Museum of the Print, CDMX, 2007); Origins (MACO, Oaxaca, 1997) and Amarres de Luz y Silencio (Carrillo Gil Art Museum, CDMX, 1995).
She has obtained various recognitions from institutions such as the UNAM and the British Council have already participated in different residency programs artistic Red Gate Gallery in China; Echigo - Tsumari Triennial, in Japan; Banff Center for the Arts, in Canada; MacDowell Colony, Santa Fe Art Institute and Djerassi Resident Artists Program, in the United States. Her work is part of important Public and private collections, such as those of the Amparo Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca, Museum of Art Carrillo Gil, MUAC - UNAM, National Museum of Printing, Museum of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, Museum of the Chancellery and Collection Manuel Felguérez, in Mexico; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Sprint Art Collection, Freedman Gallery - Albright College and Bank of America, in the United States. Since 1994, he has been a member in different editions of the National System of Art Creators.
She studied Graphic Design at the National School of Plastic Arts of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In 1977 He moved to London to obtain a diploma in textiles from Goldsmiths College, and in 1992 he returned to that city as a student of the Master of Fine Arts at Chelsea College of Arts.
His work has been exhibited both in Mexico and abroad in solo and group exhibitions, among which are: Materia lyrical: Memory / Accumulation Processes (Amparo Museum, Puebla, 2017) Archipelagos (Gallery Quetzal, Oaxaca, 2016), Structures / Materials / Space (Diagrama CDMX, 2014); Suspended Blues (Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, 2013); Structure / Imprints (Howard Scott Gallery, New York, 2013); Pino Suarez 3, Memory and Tours (Museum of Mexico City, 2012); Huellas y Trayectos (retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, CDMX 2010); José Alvarado 24A / Guerrero 27 Nte. (Museum of the City of Querétaro, 2010); Imprints (Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe, 2010); Traces of the Santa Veracruz (National Museum of the Print, CDMX, 2007); Origins (MACO, Oaxaca, 1997) and Amarres de Luz y Silencio (Carrillo Gil Art Museum, CDMX, 1995).
She has obtained various recognitions from institutions such as the UNAM and the British Council have already participated in different residency programs artistic Red Gate Gallery in China; Echigo - Tsumari Triennial, in Japan; Banff Center for the Arts, in Canada; MacDowell Colony, Santa Fe Art Institute and Djerassi Resident Artists Program, in the United States. Her work is part of important Public and private collections, such as those of the Amparo Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca, Museum of Art Carrillo Gil, MUAC - UNAM, National Museum of Printing, Museum of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, Museum of the Chancellery and Collection Manuel Felguérez, in Mexico; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Sprint Art Collection, Freedman Gallery - Albright College and Bank of America, in the United States. Since 1994, he has been a member in different editions of the National System of Art Creators.
SELECTED ARTWORKS
Perla Krauze works with a number of materials from lead, clay and water to stone. Using graphite frottages from stones and pavements and engraved volcanic rocks from El Pedregal, her paintings are abstract topographies and mappings. Stone is a fundamental material in her practice; linked to memory and durability, it can also be transformed and eroded. The crosshatch patterns in her paintings derive from the lines made in stone cutting, emphasising the transformation of stone from raw material to art object. Described as ‘grayscale tone poems’, Krauze alters and arranges stones to make miniature landscapes, complete in themselves but still referencing their origins.
Much of her work welcomes the discussion of geography and petrology, documenting the El Pedregal area of Mexico City in particular. This region of the city has a distinct cultural and physical topology. Mythical and raw, it houses the ruins of Cuilcuilco, the oldest city in Mexico, and Copilco, both covered by lava from the eruption of the Xitle volcano three thousand years ago. Krauze also references architecture from the past century in her paintings and sculpture including the Museo Anahuacalli and Casa Prieto designed by Luis Barragan.
INSTALLATION VIEWS
