Erica G. Peralta
Fine Art Education professional website
Welcome to my art gallery, the threshold of my imagination. Here, I write about my art journey, which intertwines family structure, architecture, and social change.
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“there are two sides to the story”
Oil on panel, 18″x24″, 2017. Read.
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When I Grow Up… I want to be an alcoholic
In the series When I Grow Up… I want to be an alcoholic (WIGU…IWTBAA), I explore the feelings of alienation and class struggle using marker and acrylic paint on canvas. This past year, my cousin sent me an array of home movies documented by her mom in the 1990s. In these home movies, the Peralta’s Read.
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Floorplan Paintings (2022-2023)
How does one create a dignified system of thinking that allows us to reflect on the ways we have been influenced? With the help of basic arithmetics, I started a new process for painting floor plans with acrylic and masking tape as a guideline, resulting in a methodical grid system to understand the way the Read.
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Cardboard Sculptures 2022-2023
My MFA thesis project used the novel The Circuit, by Francisco Jiménez, as a reference, thinking about the life of migration and my family history. Cardboard, packing materials, chicken wire, and magazine collage came together to recreate the skins and textures of buildings in East Los Angeles, where I currently reside. I have dreams where Read.
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Rated P.G.
black gesso and acrylic on collaged canvas, white and brown butcher paper. 2021 43.5inx71in, Genealogy is the study of family origins and history, literally meaning race and family theory. This summer I dived into the rabbit hole that is Ancestry.com. I went 7 generations back in my family and discovered church documents, legal documents from Read.
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Flyaway (Runaway emo parody)
Watch it here: https://youtu.be/D5isZjqJ8qs Multimedia (Video, Costume, Set Design). 2020 As I continue to process my past relationship and everything that goes with that experience and I have been wanting to let out a certain frustration and confusion that is constantly filling my mind. Being here, in LA, has helped me organize those thoughts and Read.
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