Clarisse Perrette

 Zhou Brothers Art Center, 1029 West 35th Street

Chicago, IL 60611
United States 

Artist/Gallery Background:

Selected Exhibitions
2010 “Alumnae Exhibition”, Group Exhibition, Jill Newhouse Gallery, New York, NY
“50 Alderman / 50 Artists”, Group Portrait Show, Johalla Projects, Chicago IL
“Chicago Art Open”, Juried Exhibition, River East Art Center, Chicago, IL
2009 “Center Line 2009”, Group Exhibition, ZhouB Art Center, Chicago,IL
2008 “Square Foot Show”, Group Exhibition, Art Gotham, New York, NY
Upstream People Gallery, 10th Annual Faces Juried Online Exhibition
2007 “ReEncounters” Two Person Exhibition, s.e.e.d. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Gallery 440, Juried Exhibition Brooklyn, NY
Victory Hall, Juried Exhibition, Jersey City, NJ
Mamaroneck Artists Guild, Juried Exhibition, Larchmont, NY
2005 Anderson Center for the Arts, Invitational Group Show, Red Wing, MN
Mid-Atlantic Art, Exhibition, Juried Exhibition, Norfolk, VA
Open Center Gallery, Group Exhibition, New York, NY
Attleboro Museum, Juried Exhibition, Attleboro, MA
Art Students League, Group Exhibition, New York, NY
2004 Artist’s Museum, Juried Exhibition, Washington DC
2003 Organization of Independent Artists, Juried Exhibition,New York, NY
Pen and Brush Club, Juried Exhibition, New York, NY
“The Nature of Things," Seton Gallery, New Haven, CT
2002 Arbor Restaurant, solo exhibition,Washington DC
2001 Stanford Club of New York, solo exhibition,New York, NY

Residencies & Workshops
2005 Anderson Center for the Arts, Red Wing, MN
-Residency with stipend awarded to emerging NYC artists
Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, Pont-Aven, France
-Advanced painting workshop with Prof. Robert Reid, Yale Univ.
2004 Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO
-Workshop on identity & abstraction with Sandeep Mukherjee

Education
2004-05 Art Students’ League, New York, NY
2000-01 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1998-99 Corcoran School of Art, Washington DC
1991 Stanford University, Stanford, CA. BA,1991

Publications & Awards
2005 Illustrations for The Hills, Scott King, Thistlewords Press
2003 Daler-Rowney prize for Excellence, product grant
 

About:

Born in New York City, NY
Lives and works in Chicago, IL

My paintings explore the random, hectic movements in the day-to-day—one action bumps into another—one thought suddenly leads you to a very different one—one shape leans into the next. We move fast and disconnectedly. Sometimes it adds up to a whole— and sometimes it remains in pieces.

I’m interested in the deceptively simple interplay between colors, shapes and lines on canvas. While my work has an easy air to it, for me the work is actually about every day struggles—the struggle between our daily needs and our greater desires, betweeen keeping track of our keys and trying to exercise, between the desire to create meaning versus accepting some meaninglessness. In the end, I’m also asking when do shapes and forms make “sense”? When does meaning take place”?

My work invites you to find the balance and sense in day-to-day life

How did you find Upper Canada Stretchers?
    
I received a grant to work at the fabulous Anderson Center for the Arts in Minnesota for a month and I wanted to find great stretchers that could easily be shipped to Minnesota and easily disassembled to ship back home. I looked online, found Upper Canada Stretchers to look like the best ones - and have been REALLY happy with them since. 

Web Site       http://www.clarisseperrette.com