In this new series of paintings, Perez takes inspiration from recent political and social upheavals throughout the United States and examine how these glimpses into contemporary culture can function concomitantly as portraits and formalistic exercises in what he refers to as ‘brushless’ painting.

The artist developed this distinctive technique in the late 1990s in response to the New York tradition of painter as printmaker, and the blurring of the space between them. Perez transfers oil paint to the canvas by means of pressing and rubbing multiple small impressions which are gradually built up one by one to form the whole image.