SAVANA BURDICK-PEREZ
is an Argentinine interdisciplinary artist and designer based in Houston, Texas. Raised in rural Southwest Florida by an Argentine immigrant father and a mother who worked as a fine artist, she developed a singular passion for creating from a young age. After earning a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Miami, she expanded her practice across multiple disciplines creating visual art, fashion design, ceramics, performance works, and interior environments.
Her work embodies motifs of untamed womanhood and feminism while expressing flamboyant and punk visual themes. Her most recent series “HYSTERIA” is currently on view in Savannah, Georgia.
She is known for her painting series “Booty Riot”, a collection of highly color saturated portraits made from paint impressions of her body during her time living in South Beach as a reaction to a cat-call. This was later accompanied by performance art piece “Booty Riot”.
“‘HYSTERIA’, explores the complex dynamics of visibility, agency, and vulnerability in digital spaces and work environments, drawing from personal experience as a woman navigating exposing myself online. By painting images of blurred photography, the pieces reflect the tension between exposure and anonymity, power and objectification, autonomy and spectacle for the sake of expression.
The images originate from the performance piece, Lydia Loses It, in which I begin in a corporate professional outfit, strip down, paint my body, and use it as a tool to create a painting. The act challenges the intersections of professionalism, self-expression, and commodification of the body, questioning how women’s bodies are consumed, censored, and repurposed- both for art and for commercialism- online and offline.”
