Dago Perez is a Los Angeles-based visual artist. Perez was born in 1977 and raised in Mid-City LA. As the oldest of four children born to Mexican-American immigrant parents, much of Perez's early induction into American culture and the English language came from tacit observation and absorption of visual sensory overload of the 80's.Perez works across a range of media with a current emphasis in painting. While the work is rooted in a formalist play of form, color, and mark making, it is most notable for its interjections of cryptic, emotionally charged imagery. In his most...more
