By Post Staff

A Powerful Work of Art

Perdomo’s paintings capture the essence of inner moods by portraying figures, using a painterly, gestural style full of movement and color. Through gesture, posture or facial __expression conveying some area of common emotion that every human being can relate to, regardless of cultural background. Perdomo likes to paint androgenous - sensual, wistful, capricious, lost, alienated and undeniably colorful figures, he likes to study facial expressions, body language and human interaction.

Perdomo’s motifs connotating luck and abundance in Colombian culture, are often embedded in his works with a postmodern twist. Either the human figures are painted in novel contexts, or are colored unconventionally. Time and space are questionabl. Now it may include the concept that ? Fatness ? for example is more real than fitness when it comes to the human body.They represent the weariness of the Postmodern era. The bodies in his paintings also seem to represent Postmodern people's state of mind.

The vitality of each situation is built out of painterly brush strokes that are supple enough to be effective but not so perfect as to take the roughness out of these dynamic constructions of social and personal realities and like Kandinsky or Mark Franz every little detail is perfected in his mind before he attacks the project in the studio.

Group Exhibits : 1985 Colombian artists, Holand - 1986 La Manzana Verde Gallery, Quito, Ecuador - 1993 Gartner Torres Gallery, Bogota, Colombia - 1994 Colombian Consulate, Washington, D.C - 1997 Arco Art Fair, Madrid, Spain.

Personal Exhibits: 1977 Fra Angelico Gallery, Bogota, Colombia - 1986 La Manzana Verde Gallery, Quito, Ecuador - 2002 South Art Gallery, Miami, U.S.A