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Apollo - Guillo Perez 3
Apollo - Guillo Perez 3
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Original · Mixed Media on Canvas · 50 × 60 in · Stretched and unframed
“If anyone knows how to paint a rooster, it’s someone who grew up with them in the studio. Each color and brushstroke is deliberate, reflecting strength and character.”
— Guillo Pérez 3
The rooster runs through Guillo Pérez 3’s work the way certain symbols run through the practice of every serious painter: not as decoration but as obsession. A figure that keeps returning because there is always more to say. More to see.
In Guillo’s canvases, the rooster is never simply an animal. It is a protector, an omen, a figure that stands at the threshold of something. Watchful. Charged. In Apollo, the bird carries its name’s full weight: the Greek god of light, reason, and artistic truth, condensed into a posture that is simultaneously stoic and electric.
The work is mixed media on canvas, which means the surface itself is layered with intention. Oil meets other materials in a surface that reflects the complexity of the image: the rooster is not one thing but many things at once. Strength and vulnerability. Stillness and the suggestion of explosive movement. The bold strokes that define its form pull in multiple directions, creating a composition that holds a genuine tension between control and release.
Apollo emerged in 2024, during one of the most productive periods of Guillo’s studio practice. The year also produced Gilgamesh I and II, Poseidon, and several other major works. As a group they represent an artist working at the height of his powers, with the discipline to produce multiple strong canvases in a single year without losing the intensity that makes each one singular.
Details
- Artist: Guillo Pérez 3
- Title: Apollo
- Medium: Mixed media on canvas
- Dimensions: 50 × 60 in (127 × 152.4 cm)
- Year: 2024
- Presentation: Stretched and unframed
- Edition: One of a kind original
- Authenticity: Signed by the artist; Certificate of Authenticity included
- Condition: Excellent
- Ships from: Tampa, Florida — worldwide shipping available
Collector’s Note
Apollo is an entry point into one of the most recurring and psychologically loaded symbols in Guillo Pérez 3’s body of work. The rooster as a figure appears across multiple paintings and carries different weight in each. This particular work, at 50 by 60 inches and in mixed media, is among the most technically layered of the rooster series. For collectors interested in building depth within a single artist’s practice, Apollo in dialogue with Crossing the Delaware or Captain Grey Beard creates a compelling thematic conversation about power, presence, and the symbols human beings use to make sense of both.
Acquisition
This work is available for purchase through Marcolina’s Fine Arts Gallery with worldwide shipping, full insurance, and professional art packaging. Payment plans are available. Private in-person viewings are available by appointment in Tampa, Florida. Virtual viewings are available for collectors anywhere in the world. Contact us to inquire.
About the Artist
Guillo Pérez 3 is a Dominican-American painter born in Santo Domingo in 1981 and raised in Queens, New York. He is the grandson of the celebrated master painter Guillo Pérez, one of the Dominican Republic’s most respected artistic figures, and the son of painter Willy Pérez. He carries a multigenerational lineage of serious painterly practice while forging a voice that is unmistakably his own.
Working from Tampa, Florida, Guillo has developed a personal artistic philosophy he calls Bauhaus Budō: a synthesis of Bauhaus design principles and the meditative rigor of martial arts. Geometry as structure. Intuition as movement. Color as emotional force. His canvases explore mythology, religion, the human psyche, and systems of belief, drawing on world traditions while remaining entirely contemporary in execution.
He has founded galleries in Miami and New York, created community programs for emerging artists, and co-founded Marcolina’s Fine Arts Gallery in Tampa. The New York Times recognized him as a “Star Maker.” His work has been exhibited across the United States and internationally.
