Veronica Perez Karleson

Artist

Art Histories

Painting of woman in profile, wearing a white tunic, in the style of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti, with flowers and golden background. A bit cubist, with a huge eye and mouth.

Nefertiti

Collage style painting in golden and white tones of the statue of Nike, the winged goddess of victory, with eye and big red mouth.

The Wrath of Samothrace

Painting with ochre background and the figure of a woman in Egyptian style with an Horus eye and a big red mouth singing into a microphone.

Egyptian blues

Painting of a green woman on ochre background in ancient Egyptian style shouting while holding a small red heart in her hand.

I found your heart amongst the tomatoes

Buzzing pregnant women

Painting of a silhouette of a pregnant woman with an enormous eye and mouth, wearing a golden pearl necklace, dancing on grey background.

In the moon light

Painting of a silhouette of a pregnant woman with one enormous eye, a big red mouth and a golden necklace, dancing on grey background.

Conjured with the cosmos

Painting of a silhouette of a pregnant woman with an enormous eye and red mouth, with a golden necklace and dancing, on grey background.

Barefoot on the earth

Three graces

Painting of a silhouette of a pregnant woman with an enormous eye and mouth, dancing with a big pink and white flower, on grey background.

Carpe diem

Painting of grey skull with eye and big red smiling mouth, with pink flowers and grey background.

Such is life

Painting of a woman in the style of a greek white and grey statue, with eye and red mouth on grey background, getting ready to throw a red heart that she has in her hand.

Romantic love

Song, dance and power.

The story behind the paintings (in Spanish).

In “Art Histories”, I paint women in different ancient styles doing things that they wouldn’t have done in the classic representations of the time. In my paintings, women sing, dance, shout and laugh. The opposite of the silent feminine figure that fills the history of art that I studied.

The series was inspired by the book Women and Power, by Mary Beard. Particularly, by the idea that women are still silenced in contemporary culture using methods and arguments from antiquity.

In painting these misbehaving women I ask myself the question: how would the world look now if all this time women had been allowed to be themselves?