Perri will present a body of work at the end of her residency in a solo exhibit at the Confluence Gallery with an opening reception on January 8th, 2016.Perri Howard is a Seattle-based artist with an impressive resume of shows and awards including public art commissions, residencies and artist presentations across the globe. She received her M.F.A. at Cranbrook Academy of Art and BFA’s at both The Evergreen State College and University of Washington. Perris' artwork is in private and public collections from Seattle, WA all the way to Tamil Nadu, India.
Perri says “My artistic expression has, since the beginning, involved the relationship between human perception and sense of place. We will do almost anything to understand the world as a place of order, even when that order is compromised in the face of storm events, navigational lapses, dropped signals, and missed connections. Even when chaos presents, there is always an underlying grid, a place into which we all drop a pin, every day of our lives, to stake out a map, a direction, a sense of belonging. We gravitate towards that last known location, a point on the horizon, our nearest friend. My paintings and prints are multi-layered, committing real places, imaginary landscapes, and perspectival lines as one seamless whole. Diurnal patterning of light and tides, wind vectors, and flight maps all figure significantly in the two-dimensional works, relating to the “there-ness” of everything.”
During her time in residence at Confluence Gallery, Perri will create a body of work that examines the profound disorientation brought by recent fires and the recovery effort at hand. In no way will this be a somber series of works, but one which focuses on the reference points and landmarks that lead us onward. Perri possesses a lifelong interest in the natural world and humankind’s cartesian approach to our surroundings. Drawing from ready access to the landscapes in and around the Methow Valley, she will make keen observations of the new places, new descriptors, and new paths emerging from these landscapes changed by fire. She will focus on the patterns and rhythms that serve as reference points during this process of reorientation, as we continue to navigate the intricate terrain where one’s inner landscape converges with the outside world.
Perri is an active civil servant, serving on advisory boards and committees across the Puget Sound area. Most recently, she joined the Board of directors at the Twispworks Foundation right here in the Methow Valley.
Please help us welcome Perri to our creative Methow Valley Community!
Explore more of Perri’s work at her website w w w . v m g w o r k s . c o m
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