Perri Neri: New Paintings

Exhibition Dates: september 29 - october 24, 2020

Reception: thursday, october 1, 5 - 8 pm

The Painting Center is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Perri Neri. Neri has labored, layered, scrubbed, and scratched her canvases to produce work that embraces figuration and celebrates the act of painting. Her paintings speak of the vulnerability and emotions, the struggle and joy in finding human connection, and the visceral experience of being human. Her approach to art making tackles the history of figurative painting and her own place as an artist. Some work is in direct response to particular paintings or themes in art history. Others are visual meditations on how it feels to move through this particular place in time.

Neri has always worked with an undercurrent of subtle political influence. This new body of work reflects the artist’s own restlessness with a dominating power system that has survived generations of political protests and the fight for equality and social change. Graphite on newsprint, printed text, and images ripped out of magazines pushed into raw or prepped canvases often engage with the figure. This practice speaks to the multiplicity of fragmented information streaming constantly via social media and the news and entertainment business.

Perri Neri was born in Newport, Rhode Island and received her MFA in Painting with Distinction from The Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Neri has exhibited in solo and group shows throughout New York and Florida including Ceres Gallery in NYC, Caelum Gallery in NYC, A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, Scarfone-Hartley Gallery in Tampa, and most recently, a retrospective of her work, Past-Tense; Present at The Morean Art Center in St Petersburg, Florida. Her work has been featured in two volumes of Studio Visit Magazine, and in a 2015 article, Women in Contemporary Art, Where are They Now?, in Honeysuckle Magazine. Neri’s work is in collections throughout the United States and Europe.

For more information on the artist, please visit: perrineri.com.
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