Today we’d like to introduce you to The Perez Bros.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
Growing up in South Gate, we were always into art in some way or another. As little kids in Elementary School, we were into cartoons and comics and would always draw characters like the X-Men or The Simpsons. All the way through High School, we would always doodle all types of characters on our assignments and notebooks. Our first introduction to any sort of fine art was in High School when we learned about Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. And it wasn’t until our AP art class in our senior year that we started taking our art seriously. Our Art teacher convinced us to apply to Otis College of Art and Design. We worked on our portfolio and applied, and surprisingly we both got accepted. We decided to major in Fine Art and focused on painting. It was during our Junior year at Otis that we decided to work together as a collaborative tag team.
After we graduated school, we kept working together and perfecting our craft. It wasn’t until after we finished school that we began painting the Los Angeles lowrider culture. We kept trying to figure out our voice in the art world, so we decided to draw from our experiences during our childhood. Our Dad always had a lowrider and was/is a part of a car club. So we grew up around the culture. We would always go to car shows and cruise nights and ride around in our dad’s car. We’ve always been fascinated by the bright-colored lowriders with the crazy paint jobs, and the hoppers we would see in the streets. Also the lowrider art, like the detailed airbrushed murals on the cars. A professor at school once told us to paint what know, and we know and love the lowrider culture, so decided to create paintings that honor that.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
One big challenge for us is definitely not being financially stable. We still have a day job at the moment, which makes it difficult for us to paint every day, or more often than we’d like. Some days, we’re too tired to even go into the studio and paint. Another big challenge of ours is our mental health. We have social anxiety, which makes it difficult for us to accept certain jobs. One lesson that we’ve learned is to slow down and take mental breaks when we need it. Also that we don’t need to say yes to everything, or else we’ll burn out. Our journey hasn’t been easy, but we seem to reach our goals one way or another.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
We create paintings as a tag team that represents our love for the lowrider culture. We go to cruise nights and car shows and photograph our environment. We then use our photos as a reference when creating our paintings. Our main focus is studio work, creating a body of work for gallery shows. Apart from that, we also do murals and collaborate with brands. What we think sets us apart is that we are twin painters that work together.
Contact Info:
- Website: theperezbros.com
- Instagram: theperezbros
Image Credits
@drew_v600 First Photo
