"Concentrate: on the small things"
Reno, NV (January 2025) Click HERE to learn more about this exhibition show. Concentrate is a powerful and playful exhibition by Felicia Perez that transforms the experience of chronic illness into art. Through unconventional materials like used pill bottles, mirrors, and miniature figures, the work reimagines survival, joy, and healing while challenging perceptions of value and purpose. Highlights include No Big Deal, a series of 60 paintings created with pill bottle caps, representing 60 chemo infusions over 10 years, and 60 Degrees of Remission, an interactive piece inviting viewers to help “dilute” illness by taking a part of the art with them.
The exhibition also features The Container is the Medicine, which reimagines the humble trash can as a giant pill bottle, asking viewers to consider how what we discard or overlook—including illness itself—can hold value and transformation. Finally, through playful photos of a miniature version of the artist out in the world, Concentrate poses an imaginative question: What would you do if you were 1/84th your size? Where would you go? What unexpected places would you explore to see the world—and yourself—differently? |
"THIS IS A SIGN" / "THIS MUST BE A SIGN"
Holland Project Billboard Gallery Reno, NV (Fall 2022) Click HERE to learn more about this series. The Holland Project’s Billboard Gallery showcases the work of exceptional emerging and established regional artists on billboards throughout Reno’s surface streets. Three new artists are installed every four weeks starting in 2022. In collaboration with Nevada Humanities and in celebration of the Nevada Literary Crawl, we teamed up with three artists that utilize poetry and text in their work for September including Aurelio, Felicia Perez, and Jared Stanley.
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"EYE REFUSE"
Literary Crawl Reno @ Sundance Books Reno, NV (Fall 2022) Click HERE to see program PDF. Pause in your day and spend time with Eye Refuse, an artwork by Felicia T Perez. Contemplate the many different ways that we can stop and take a look at both our personal health and that of our national healthcare system. Participants interacting with Eye Refuse are asked to take a look at what we call trash and what we may deem no longer necessary.
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