Home of the Brave | Guillo Pérez 3 | Original Oil Painting

Original oil painting by Guillo Pérez 3 · 60 × 72 in · Dominican-American expressionist · Large format contemporary painting · Available at Marcolina’s Fine Arts Gallery, Tampa, Florida · Ships worldwide

Home of the Brave is a painting about what the word home actually means when you have had to search for it. Not a place you were handed but a place you chose, built, and earned. For Guillo Pérez 3, a Dominican-American artist who understands the experience of honoring roots in one country while building a life in another, that question is not abstract. It is the story of his life and the life of everyone who came before him.

The painting does not depict a house or a flag or a landmark. It depicts the feeling: sanctuary, the particular quality of a space that holds your truest self, the moment when you stop arriving and start belonging. That is what bravery looks like in the quiet register: not on a battlefield but in the decision to call somewhere home and mean it.

At 60 by 72 inches, this is one of the largest works currently available. The scale matters. You do not look at this painting from across a room. You stand inside it.

Collectors across the United States have responded to this work with an immediacy that distinguishes it. It speaks to anyone who has ever left something behind in order to build something better.

Collector's Note

Home of the Brave is among the most emotionally accessible works in Guillo Pérez 3's body of work, which makes it a strong entry point for collectors acquiring their first major piece as well as a meaningful addition for those building depth. Its symbolic resonance is universal enough to connect with any viewer while remaining specific enough to reward careful attention. At 60 by 72 inches, it has the authority to anchor a room.

Acquisition

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About the Artist

Guillo Pérez 3 is a Dominican-American painter, co-founder, educator, and cultural ambassador whose artwork and vision help define the identity of Marcolina’s Fine Arts Gallery. Born in Santo Domingo and raised in Queens, New York, he is the grandson of Maestro Guillo Pérez, one of the Dominican Republic’s most respected painters and a recognized figure in the U.S. State Department’s Art in Embassies program, and the son of master painter Willy Pérez. Three generations of unbroken serious painterly practice. His work hangs in the permanent collection of the Skylands Museum of Art alongside Salvador Dalí and Pablo Picasso, and is held by private collectors in over 48 countries.

Guillo has painted with severely limited vision since childhood. Like Monet, who painted his Water Lilies series while losing his sight, and Matisse, who created his most celebrated works when illness took him away from the canvas, Guillo’s relationship with sight has become the source of something extraordinary rather than a constraint. Unable to rely on conventional vision, he paints from a place of total interior conviction: from historical knowledge, spiritual formation, and a bodily intelligence built over decades of serious practice. Every mark is a commitment. Every color choice is an act of faith. When he paints, that is when he is seeing.

He grew up in a deeply religious Christian household and has spent a lifetime in serious study of world history, comparative religion, and international affairs. His paintings are not decorative mythologies. They are the work of a man who has read the texts, lived the contradictions, and paints from the inside of those traditions.

In Tampa, he was mentored by the late Theo Wujcik, longtime USF Graphicstudio director whose work is held in the Tampa Museum of Art’s permanent collection. In 2022, The Straz Center commissioned him for a mural connected to their production of The Little Match Girl, and during the interview their team described him simply as art royalty.

Working from Tampa, Florida, he has developed Bauhaus Budō: a synthesis of Bauhaus design discipline and the meditative rigor of martial arts. His work has been exhibited across the United States, the Caribbean, and Europe. The New York Times recognized him as a “Star Maker.”

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