George P. Perez explores mundane situations and day-to-day scenarios in his artwork. Utilizing everyday images and unconventional processes, he creates collages, installations, and sculptures. In the body of work he produced for the Octopus Initiative, he mined his archive of found photographs for those with stereotypical sentimental characteristics. He alternately undermines and emphasizes the photographs’ nostalgic qualities by tearing, scanning, and rearranging them. As he understands it, this process is akin to textile weaving. The works explore the hackneyed conventions and personal nuances found in these inexpensive, increasingly anachronistic artifacts.

Perez was born in 1987 in Boulder, Colorado. He received a BFA from the University of Colorado Boulder and is currently an MFA Candidate under the Gilbert Fellowship at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at RedLine Contemporary Art Center and at the Denver Children’s Museum, where he created a collaborative artwork for the museum’s permanent collection. Perez has been a Photo-Facilitator with Working Assumptions based out of Berkeley, CA, and part of the M12 cohort, an award-winning artist collective that specializes in rural aesthetics and landscape.