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Alina Perez — Butterfly Person
Alina Perez

Butterfly Person

2021

Rendered in charcoal and pastel on paper, Butterfly Person (2021) presents a figure caught in a moment of quiet metamorphosis, the soft smudging of charcoal lines giving way to delicate bursts of pastel color that seem to emanate from within the composition. Alina Perez works with a vocabulary of gesture and mark that is at once intimate and deliberately unresolved, allowing the figure to hover between definition and dissolution. The result is a work that rewards sustained looking, revealing new tonal relationships and textural contrasts as the eye moves across its modest but commanding scale of 35.6 × 27.3 cm. Perez has developed a distinctive approach to the figure that draws on the expressive traditions of works on paper while remaining firmly rooted in a contemporary sensibility around identity, transformation, and the body. Butterfly Person exemplifies this balance, channeling the symbolic weight of its title through restrained means rather than overt illustration. The work is signed by the artist and is presented without a frame, offering the collector the opportunity to make considered decisions about presentation that suit their own space and aesthetic priorities. Available through Prescription Art, this is a strong example of Perez's practice at an accessible scale that nonetheless carries genuine pictorial ambition.

Medium
Charcoal and pastel on paper
Overall
Signed
Yes
Location
Prescription Art, Brighton, East Sussex

For Sale — £2500

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Alina Perez, Butterfly Person, 2021

Rendered in charcoal and pastel on paper, Butterfly Person (2021) presents a figure caught in a moment of quiet metamorphosis, the soft smudging of charcoal lines giving way to delicate bursts of pastel color that seem to emanate from within the composition. Alina Perez works with a vocabulary of gesture and mark that is at once intimate and deliberately unresolved, allowing the figure to hover between definition and dissolution. The result is a work that rewards sustained looking, revealing new tonal relationships and textural contrasts as the eye moves across its modest but commanding scale of 35.6 × 27.3 cm. Perez has developed a distinctive approach to the figure that draws on the expressive traditions of works on paper while remaining firmly rooted in a contemporary sensibility around identity, transformation, and the body. Butterfly Person exemplifies this balance, channeling the symbolic weight of its title through restrained means rather than overt illustration. The work is signed by the artist and is presented without a frame, offering the collector the opportunity to make considered decisions about presentation that suit their own space and aesthetic priorities. Available through Prescription Art, this is a strong example of Perez's practice at an accessible scale that nonetheless carries genuine pictorial ambition.

Medium
Charcoal and pastel on paper
Dimensions
overall: 35.6 x 27.3 cm
Year
2021
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Prescription Art, Brighton, East Sussex

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Gavin Kennedy