THE FACE BENEATH

GUILLO PEREZ III
The Face Beneath, 2025
Oil on canvas
24 x 36 in

“The Face Beneath” by Dominican-American artist Guillo Pérez III captures a figure mid-motion: part biker, part rebel, part modern-day luchador. This dynamic painting surges with layered symbolism: the mask, the movement, the tension between seen and unseen. The result is an image that feels both mythical and immediate, alive with urgency and spirit.

Born in Santo Domingo and raised in Queens, New York, Guillo Pérez III is known for his emotionally charged oil paintings that blend figurative expressionism, urban energy, and ancestral memory. As the grandson of the legendary Dominican painter Guillo Pérez, his work continues a legacy of storytelling through paint, but pushes it into new terrain: raw, spiritual, and layered with personal and collective symbolism. His figures often exist in a liminal space, navigating cultural inheritance, identity, and transformation.

In “Masked Momentum,” the rider becomes a vessel, caught between escape and arrival, chaos and control. Painted in vibrant, unfiltered brushwork and grounded in a rich visual language, the piece speaks to the artist’s ongoing exploration of masculinity, mythology, diaspora, and the metaphysical body in motion.

This is not just a painting. It’s a moment in flux, and a mirror for the viewer’s own reckoning with presence and passage.