Magaly Perez
Creating color form and fantasy
Maura Curley
Magaly Perez Ohika creates from a place, where she says she can dream, explore, play, shout, build, love, destroy, run, deny, remember, accept, let go, and confront.
The results are striking images of color, form and fantasy, which reflect her education and life experience.
Ohika was born in New York’s Bronx, and raised by her Puerto Rican parents in the lower east side. Inheriting talent from her artist father, she studied illustration and toy design at the Fashion Institute, where she earned her bachelor in fine arts.
After teaching arts workshops and designing action figures and dolls for One Word Toys and Tyco she decided to pursue a career painting.
Now living in Puerto Rico, Ohika works in watercolor and acrylic on wood, creating dramatic pieces of art, each with a story to tell. She says stories are very important to her, and she has been telling them all her life, first with her action figures, later with children’s books.
She says she is expressing her own stories through her paintings, which incorporate fantasy and mysticism with highly emotion overtones.
She's motivated by both bad and good experiences, adding that experiences and people inspire her.
She spills herself open, observing that it helps conquer fear.
It also creates some incredible art.
Check out her blog here.
Photo by D.B. Bostdorf.
Maura Curley is publisher of virginvoices.com.
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