Artist Profile-Charles Perera
Charles Perera. Redondo Beach artist Charles Perera has a solo show opening Wednesday at Ortega 21 in Redondo Beach. That’s close to where he lives, but far from where he was raised. Perera was born in Sri Lanka, the teardrop-shaped island once known as Ceylon, just south of India. He immigrated to the United States 13 years ago after having won the Green Card lottery. “America has been good to me,” he says. “First of all, it’s a peaceful nation, and people are friendly. Everywhere you go there are the good, the bad and the ugly. You have to take that into account.” “Amazonian II,” by Charles Perera Civil war Growing up with the unrest in Sri Lanka, it took time to overcome the impact the drama had on his young soul. He was nine years old when the civil war broke out in 1983. “My world was turned upside down,” Perera says. “Even if I was not directly involved, the war was at the back of my mind all of the time. I was a turbulent soul living in a devastated country. People were either your friends or your enemies. These sorts of things affect you.” Lately, Perera’s art has been taking a different direction. More and more, landscapes have been turning up on his canvases. He sees…
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