Michelle Prazak
Bio
Michelle Prazak (Peru, 1977) lives and works in Lima. She completed a master's degree in fine arts in London, at the Byam Shaw School of Art - Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (London) where she received a Bloomberg scholarship. He also obtained a bachelor's degree at the Escuela de Artes Plasticas Corriente Alterna in Lima and attended the Lorenzo di Medici Institute in Florence, where he furthered his studies in art theory and art history. After finishing his pedagogical studies at the University of London, he taught painting and drawing at the University of the Arts Florence (Florence), the Shadwell Centre (London), among others. His work is part of national and international collections and has been exhibited in several cities including Lima, Chicago, Houston, Berlin, Bogota and London.
Statement
Michelle's work leans towards a development of geometry from non-figuration, although with a naturalistic charge reflected in her ways of relating surface and color, and through a process of synthesis and reduction to essential forms. In this pictorial proposal, Prazak radicalizes his discourse with a harmonious planimetry free of artifice where the pieces are incorporated as an imaginary architecture generating spatial links and notions of movement that invite to adopt alternative ways of seeing. Fostering a complex encounter that activates the viewer's perception, she lets the planes speak in a permanent dialogue that becomes the contemplation and subtle interpretation of time and space.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
