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Carlos Raul Perez, The Carpenter, 1988
oil on canvas
64 x 48 in.

Carlos Raul Perez was born in Los Angeles in 1953. He apprenticed in photography under Norman Frimkess and later worked at the Elson-Alexander sTudio as a portrait photographer. Perez is also a self-taught painter. In 1973 he started painting commissioned portraits based on photographic studies. He gradually began to experiment with colors, textures, and perspectives. His recent studies of people or still-life objects strike a balance between realist representation and mystical impressionism.