Luz Perez Ojeda

professional artist, painter, portrait photographer, and printer. My artistic background did not come through academic accomplishment, rather I gained my experience while working in art studios. From the time I was a kid, I have been living in an artist- friendly environment. The people in my life included my parents, whom were both artists themselves along with teachers of art( venezuelan Muralist Armando Perez and painter Esther Ojeda). As this was my environment, I learned very quickly from my parents' knowledge and teaching of the arts. I learned quickly and became not only a professional artist, painter and photographer, but also a serigraphy printer while working as an assistant for a decade to the well-known International kinetic and optical art master, Carlos Cruz-Diez. While working as his collaborator, I also learned and assisted him in silkscreen printing and photography in his atelier here in Paris. I decided to continue my education at Atelier Del Arco, located in Paris, during the years of 1988 through 1994. I used my newly-acquired skills to compose traditional black-and-white photography in a lab owned by printer and editor François Patez. While working in the lab, I further improved my skills in art silk-screening by printing the creations of very well-known artists like Klasen, Miotte, Vasarely, Chu-teh Chun, Aurélie Nemours, Cruz Diez, Gianni Bertini, Velikovicz etc.