The Perez Bros.

The Perez Bros. eat, breath, photograph and paint lowrider car culture like no one else. Growing up in South Gate, California Alejandro and Vicente (Born 1994) were born into a family of motor-heads, so it was only a matter of time before the identical twins took to documenting the Los Angeles Lowrider culture. Both attended Otis College of Art and Design to pursue degrees in Fine Art focusing on painting, which is when they started collaborating as an artistic duo. Their photographs, murals and paintings capture slices of Los Angeles as only locals can.

The work celebrates and embodies the lowriders and car clubs of L.A.’s Chicano community. Executed by both brothers in tandem, the monochromatic, tone-on-tone acrylic paintings take their color directly from the candied gloss color palette of lowriders. The brothers choose subjects from a personal archive of photographs, gathered over a lifetime immersed in the lowrider scene. Many of the works include sculptural elements familiar to car culture: engraved chrome trim pieces run across compositions, mirrors are tiled below tires as if to provide the viewer a glimpse of a gleaming undercarriage. In this way, the works transcend their status as painting and become like cars themselves, adorned with precise murals and finished with a sparkling resin glaze. The compositions have been distilled to their essence – everything comes back to the cars – but still convey a sense of community pride, not only in the lowriders but in the people and culture that surround them.

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