Lillianna Pereira: A collective work of Modern Collage

By Ashley W Joyce

I very much invite you to see Lillianna Pereira’s solo show at the Elephant Room Inc. Gallery. If your into beauty and dark, mystery and tales, this is the kind of show for you. The feel of the room is very much like her craft, a collage of sorrow, beauty and mythology with a hint of femininity. This graphic designer from Massachusetts, has been fortunate enough to grow up in an artistic household but not blessed with good drawing skills. Inspired by mythology, she’s mastered the technique of collage art and story telling. In a series of work, Lillianna Pereira presents to us a body of work very much true to her self being. Lillianna takes on what she perceives to be strong female roles, often portrayed as weak in Mythology, and reconstructs them in her art.

She has some personal attachment soaked into each individual collage, making it very hard to let them go for sale. She is happy however, knowing they will be with someone who appreciates them.

The images for the most part are single images, women and men in vulnerable and self-reflective circumstances and or going through some personal endurance. Somehow Lillianna manages to capture these characters in portraits of self clarity, denial, shame, guilt, and or freedom. There is a beauty in every collage, like doorways into a private and secret world available only in Lillianna’s mind. If you are a reader of classic mythology, you will have fun guessing the characters and the moments Lillianna chose from their tales. The artist admits sometimes people get more out of a character than what she tried to portray of them. Like most art, its in the eye of the viewer, what they see and what they take.

I enjoy Lillianna’s modern representation of these mythological lessons and the human struggles against these moral duties set before us. There is a universal feel of loneliness in her work, but she still offers solace against those moments of self-reflection in her colors and imagery. Her art is so pretty and gentle, it conquers a small place in your heart. Lillianna Pereira is a very intimate and quiet artist, she will not talk about what she was feeling during a number of pieces, but I’m almost certain if you can feel like a human being, you’ll figure it out.

Check out her work online at

The Elephant Room, Inc.

Lillianna Pereira