His works are created using a mixed technique (engraving ink, asphalt, and linseed oil) on photographic emulsion, where chiaroscuro plays a predominant role and color acts as a secondary element, giving the work an ambiguous pictorial sense. Above all, he seeks simplicity and balance. In his images, he manipulates the boundaries between techniques as a way to attract, seduce, and confront the viewer. Their emotional impact communicates a deep and highly personal psychological reality of the time he has lived through.

His artistic work is deeply rooted in figuration, stemming from the tradition of the Spanish Baroque school. He constantly pushes the conceptual sources of this tradition and its historical influences in his art. At the same time, he seeks to expand the static notions of painting and drawing to unite them with photography. As a result, his images are classical in appearance but strongly contemporary in the way they are conceptualized and constructed.

BIOGRAPHY

Juan Perdiguero, born in 1963, originally from Madrid, is a professor in the Department of Drawing at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the State University of New York, Oswego campus. He has received numerous grants, leaves, and artistic residencies, including SCAC Grant, Atworks, National Residency CEPA Gallery, Art Matters Inc., Hangar Barcelona, Can Serrat, Bruch, Three Walls Chicago, etc. He has exhibited his creative work in numerous national and international galleries, including Galería Metropolitana, Galería Artificial, Marcia Wood Gallery, Ann Nathan Gallery, Éxito Arte, Artist Network, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, and The Albright-Knox Gallery. He has given lectures on the creative processes of his artistic work nationally and internationally. His work is held in numerous private and public collections, including the Castellani Art Museum, The Burchfield-Penney Art Center, and the David Bowie Collection.