Sculptor in Connecticut, etnic art, terracotta sculptures, venezuelan artist in USA

Biography

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Sikiu was born and raised in Barquisimeto; cradle of the arts and crafts industry of her native Venezuela. She grew up in a region full of arid landscapes and natural clay deposits, where she frequently extracted the best terracotta to build her sculptures. At the age of three, she enrolled for classes at the local fine art school, “Martin Tovar y Tovar” where her father worked as a ceramic teacher. Once ready for adult classes the school gave her the opportunity to explore a broad variety of mediums and learn from master instructors.

While in Venezuela, Sikiu’s family encouraged her to pursue a diploma; she did not have the desire to be an Art Teacher, therefore she acquired an Advertising and Marketing degree that certainly gave her connections in the Art Market. Despite the challenges of being a young single mother in a predominately male chauvinist country, she successfully commissioned works for architects, Interior Designers and private collectors. Her name can be found in innumerable locations: restaurants, resorts, businesses and homes. Her last work in Venezuela was a fifty two feet monument located at the Resort Islas del Sol in Chichiriviche and few cement murals on the area.

In early 2001 she moved to The United States calling home to Bozrah, Connecticut, where she built her ceramic studio and recently became an active member of the Connecticut Sculptor Society. She also collaborates in different online sources for Hispanic Artists. She thinks there is not sufficient specialized information in Spanish to help pursuing an art career; this is a good time to give back all that she has learned.

Statement

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The Ancient Mesoamerican and Pre-Columbian Art is the substance of my style. The female figure is the center stage in my compositions, and her curves richly decorated represent Goddesses with voluptuousness and plentiful sexual allure. I also have an appreciation for a wide variety of birds, symbolizing graceful fertility and power. My sculptures characteristically use a vocabulary of assembled flat panels with appended simple forms created with terracotta, generally as high relief mosaics strategically assembled.

A little more about me. Optional to read

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I had to let you know something more about me as a person and an artist, they are together but sometimes I think they are not, maybe it is like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde without regretions anyway, even in my wildest dreams I'll never destroy my creations, if I let them out is because it was asked to, they below to the world and not to me anymore.
My father always encouraged me even after drawing a huge city with crayons in a freshly painted living room wall. I can't count how many times I "misbehave" with paints, clay, tools and my parents never grounded me, I still remember the taste of the clay in my mouth, the paint running on my legs and the feeling of a good art creation... I miss those days but I still play! I might be less messy but the feelings are as strong as in my childhood.

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Contact

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Sikiu Perez
Bozrah, CT
Phone: (860) 271-5337
email: sikiup@gmail.com

Link: www.sikiublog.com with artist live video, check for weekly schedule.