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Artist Statement:
Pride and Prejudice: on
Raphael Perez's Artwork
Raphael Perez, born in 1965,
studied art at the College of
Visual Arts in Beer Sheva, and
from 1995 has been living and
working in his studio in Tel
Aviv. Today Perez plays an
important role in actively
promoting the LGBT (lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transsexual)
art and culture in Tel Aviv,
and the internet portal he set
up helps artists from the
community reach large
audiences in Israel and
abroad. Hundreds of his
artworks are part of private
collections in Israel and
abroad, and his artworks were
shown in several group
exhibitions: in Tel Aviv
Museum of Art, "Zman
Le'Omanut" art gallery, Camera
Obscura, The Open House in
Jerusalem, Ophir Gallery, The
Haifa Forum and other private
businesses and galleries.
In 2003-4 his paintings and
studio appeared in a
full-length movie, three
student films and two
graduation films.
Raphael Perez is the first
Israeli artist to express his
lifestyle as a Gay. His life
and the life of the LGBT
community are connected and
unfold over hundreds of
artwork pieces. His art
creation is rare and
extraordinary by every Israeli
and international artistic
standard. His sources of
inspiration ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
1997 Camera Obscura (Curator
Department)-Tel Aviv
1998 Flamingo Restaurant
Gallery - Tel Aviv
2000 Cafe Gallery THEO - Tel
Aviv
2001 Jerusalem Open House
2002 GLBT community Center in
the Galilee
2003 group exhibition tel aviv
museum of art
2003 time for art gallery
2004 fresco gallery tel aviv
2005 king ...
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Artist Reviews:
Online References to Raphael
Perez:
http://bgay.com/ae/raphael-pere
z/
http://www.befrank.co.uk/magazi
ne/theatre/PERETZ.ASP
http://www.gay-people.com/summe
rgayroscopo.php3?zod=ariete -
http://www.rainbownation.it/que
er/art/articolo_en.asp?Sezione=
paintings_en&Id=1 ...
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Collections for Raphael Perez:
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422 original artworks on private collection ( today 12/2010)
I do live only from sale art for the last 11 years
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