Profile in TimeOut Chicago Kids

I was recently interviewed and profiled in the latest edition of TimeOut Chicago Kids. Hit the link for a bunch more photos of my work along with the article that was published.

http://www.timeoutchicagokids.com/arts-entertainment/museums-sights/40085/origami-wizard-ty-perez

Time Out Magazine cover

I designed this origami cocktail ring for Time Out Chicago magazine's cover story in January 2010.

Buckingham fountain ads

  I folded the cranes and boats for these ads used to  help raise money to repair the Buckingham fountain in downtown Chicago.

                           

                          

squid

book: origami from angel fish to zen

size: 6in from tail to tentacle 

date made: 2007

hummingbird

name: hummingbird
paper: 6 inch gold foil
book: origami design secrets
size: 2 inches long
date made: 2006

Bahamut

bahamut side view

bahamut side view

bahamut back

bahamut head detail

This was one of my favorite
pieces and its always been a personal goal to make it.

Name: Bahamut
Paper: 20 inch sheet (I don't remember the paper)
Book: Works of Satoshi Kamiya
Size: 8in wing spanned / 4in tall
Date made: June 2007

Craftzine

I was featured on the popular Craftzine blog here 

NPR interview

I was interviewed in the chicago NPR radio show Eight Forty-Eight.

you can listen to my interview here 

Local news interview

I was interviewed by local Pioneer news paper and got a full page photo on the cover you can read the online article here

Columbia College Exhibit

Here are some of the artists from the exhibit
Ingo Maurer
Peter Webber
Yuko Nishimura
Robert Lang
Ty Perez
Bradford Hansen Smith
Christine Edison
James Dieter
Joshua Koppel
Michael LaFosse
Chris Palmer
Venessa Gould – of Green Fuse Films

These are the pictures from my first exhibit at Columbia College Book Paper arts gallery in Chicago.

                                        Heres my work
                               

This was the prophetic fortune I received at the exhibit.

The 300 gold cranes I folded for a special installation projecting shadows of fluttering cranes on the back wall.

the movement was caused by the air ducts in the ceiling.

It's kind of hard to see but theres a tiny crane folded from a 3mm piece of paper on top of that penny. there was a crane made out of a 2mm piece but it was lost at the exhibit. 

Work from other artists

 

Robert Lang                                           

Chris Palmer
Joshua Koppel
Bradford Hansen Smith
Christine Edison above and below

hercules beetle

name: Hercules beetle
paper:
book: origami insects and there kin
size: 6in long
date made: 2007

hippocampus

name: hippocampus
paper: square/mulberry paper
book: by nicolas terry
size: 5in tall
date made: 3/2007

Tyrannosaurus rex

name: Tyrannosaurus rex
paper: square/origamido paper
book:
size: 8in long/4in tall
date made: 2006