Luis E. Perez

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In my painting and printmaking, I explore cultural dispossession and the human need to belong.  As an immigrant brought to the US in my early teens, when I had just begun to embrace my own culture and find my place within it, I often feel like a double émigré—neither fully American nor entirely part of the Mexican culture of my parents. A perpetual outsider caught between two differing cultures. This cultural in-between zone brings up the question of identity. Who are we if we are not a part of here or there? My paintings aim to capture these complex emotions and questions of identity.