ARTIFACTS

Perhaps best dubbed a “creator of things,” Perez’s background, not surprisingly, is a mishmash of professional training in psychology, graphic design, art history, and illustration. Wincing at the label “jewelry designer” and also at the term “artist,” Perez is situated somewhere between the two. Working to reimagine conceptual conceits in jewelry making, she often places every day objects where they don’t normally appear—electrical sockets on fingers or tubes of window screen on a necklace chain--also working through common metals to underscore their materiality and the process of their creation.