Isabel Ruiz Perdiguero

isabelruizperdiguero (without spaces), is my professional name. As a Spaniard born in Madrid I use both my father and my mother’s family name, so I get to keep them happy.

Color and emotion have become the equation at the basis of my work.

My inspiration is nature, small things, sensations, the colors that surround us not only on specific objects, but also the color in abstract sense, for example as part of light reflections and its different shades too. Attitudes, feelings, the intangible, the spiritual, humor, happiness and suffering.

Since I was a child I’ve felt the need to paint. First my mother gave me a case full of oil paintings and taught me the basics. I used to paint scenes of my childhood, my surroundings, in the most ‘naif’ way.

In my first youth I began painting in a nearly obsessive way building fronts, lookouts, balconies and other beautiful and decadent corners where people wouldn’t belong, using a very thorough and hyperrealist technique and devoting to it hundreds of hours which I would balance with my studies. With the perspective you gain with time, I think I didn’t want to look inside of me. I’d rather lurk the exterior from those facades like a ‘voyeur’ worried only about attaining a beautiful im...

-Mayo de 2023 “YES”, Palazzo Turrisi in Lecce, Italia.
-2023 “Distance /Nearness”, in Puerto Madryn, Argentina.

-2022 Astrazione del XXI Secolo dal mondo, in Venecia, Italy.
-2022 Knee jerk (artist books) in Diablo Valley College library (USA).

-Octubre a diciembre de 2021 -“Frags from the Global Village, MIAD (Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design).
-Octubre 2021- “YES” Galería Artheca 32, Lido de Ostia, Roma.

-Octubre 2020- “Fragmentos” (GAP Frags Project) en Casa de Cultura San Lorenzo de el Escorial, Madrid
.-Septiembre 2020- “Crossing Borders” Usa @Jennifer PerlmutterGallery, Lafayette (California).
-Mayo-Junio 2020- “Gender GAP”@Gallerie Renee Marie, Benicia (California).

-Agosto 2019- “Crossing Borders” Gante (Bélgica).

INDIVIDUALES:

-febrero 2022 –Artist 360º feria de arte Contemporáneo en Madrid.

- 2018 Sensitive Matter, House of Culture of San Lorenzo de el Escorial, Madrid.

- 2016 Windows to Art in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, sculpture.

- 2015 Exhibition of painting on paper in House of Culture of San Lorenzo de El Escorial.

- 2014 Exhibition of paintings at Lorenzo Colomo Gallery in Valladolid.
- Painting exhibition at Clínica Valdés in San Lorenzo de El Escorial.

- 2013 Exhibition 20th anniversary Gallery ...