Original oil painting by Guillo Pérez 3 · Contemporary figurative expressionist · Greek mythology painting · Available at Marcolina’s Fine Arts Gallery, Tampa, Florida · Ships worldwide

Every ancient civilization that lived near the sea eventually did the same thing: they gave it a name, a face, and a will. The Greeks called him Poseidon. Others called him something else. But the impulse was universal: to personify a force so vast and unpredictable that it could not be understood any other way.

Guillo Pérez 3 was raised on an island. The sea was not a metaphor in his childhood. It was a physical fact, the boundary of everything, the route to everywhere. His study of ancient civilizations and their relationship with the ocean deepened what he already knew in his body: that the sea represents both the greatest opportunity and the greatest uncertainty a human being can face.

Poseidon is not a portrait of a god. It is a portrait of what we do when we encounter a force larger than ourselves. We name it, we paint it, we try to get it to listen. The painting carries that ancient human instinct in every mark.

Painted in Guillo's Bauhaus Budō style, the composition holds the tension between structural discipline and emotional turbulence that defines his finest work. The sea is ordered and chaotic simultaneously. So is this painting.

Collector's Note

Poseidon is a commanding work that earns its price. For collectors drawn to mythological and psychological subject matter in contemporary painting, this is a significant acquisition. Its subject places it in direct conversation with Atabey and Gilgamesh I in Guillo's ongoing mythic series, making it a strong anchor for collectors building depth across his practice. Works from this series are among the most intellectually coherent in the collection.

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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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