Garrett Perry at SooLocal

At SooLocaL: Post Physical | Visual Reactions to the Post-Internet Age Curated by Nathaniel Smith

SooLocal (A Division of Soo Visual Arts Center-3506 Nicollet Avenue): Post Physical | Visual Reactions to the Post-Internet Age
Curated by Nathaniel Smith
June 28 – August 10, 2014-Opening Reception Saturday June 28, 2014, 6-9PM

Participating Artists: Maria Albornoz, Cat Bluemke, Nicholas Carroll, Jesse Draxler, Travis Egedy (Pictureplane), Katerina Fisher, Kostis Fokas, Garrett Perry, Justin James Sehorn, Mark Vomit, Norah Stone and Caitlin R. Warner. 

Trillhouse by Garrett Perry.

Post Physical: Visual Reactions to the Post-Internet Age features digital, audio, video, .gif, collage, painting, sculpture and IRL works, intended to propose options, problems, and questions, but offer no definitions, to what is Post-Internet Art. Though none of the artists in Post Physical claim to be Post-Internet artists, curator Nathaniel Smith features works of artists operating at a time when it is unavoidable to be associated with the Internet - whether that means being influenced by, spreading your work through, or rejecting it as a source and means all together.

Smith on what drew him to the work included in the show: "On a personal level, the term Post-Internet Art finally offered what I was searching for when attempting to describe the work I was drawn to and which felt most relevant. It is a vague term, like Post-War Art, but it allows for multiple interpretations and means of expression, all loosely tied to a very specific current moment of human existence.” The work in this exhibition explores the conventions of how we conceptualize the essence of what it means to live during the Internet age, and translates that into visual reflections of our culture.

Marisa Olson, the inventor of the term Post-Internet, has recently amended her definition as, “Post-Internet: the symptoms of network culture.” This exhibition will represent some of these symptoms. For more images of the work visit HERE.

Courtesy of __________

I will be a Guest Artist on the panel for 'Painting and Adjacency' Courtesy of __________ on Wednesday June 18th at 6:30 at Jehra Patrick's studio. 

Minneapolis artist Jehra Patrick premiers 'Courtesy of __________,' a micro-exhibition presented in the artist’s studio space, culminating a year-long research project made possible by Artist Initiative grant funding through the Minnesota State Arts Board. 

Through this project, Patrick traveled to art museums in New York City, San Francisco, and Chicago, where she engaged in deep research within their digital and photographic archives with emphasis on those archival resources depicting past exhibition presentation preparation, and documentation. From these institutional archives, Patrick forms her own visual cache from reproduced and transferred files - making note of institutional record-keeping, artist trajectories, exhibition topics, presentation trends, and the various nature of peripheral activities towards exhibition production.

From this archive, the artist selects and edits images, honing in on interior compositions through digital cropping, reorienting and juxtaposing files, and layering documents. She then produces oil paintings after her ’tagged’ images likenesses, often incorporating qualities native to her photographic and digital sources. The final suite of painted objects is diagrammatic of visual metadata in museum architecture, art presentation, and traditional painting composition, often sighting ‘paintings within paintings,’ remarking on the referential history of Painting. Patrick initiated, and continues the series, as a pragmatic way to both capture and recall Painting’s lengthy past and promote possibility for its future within classical perimeters.

The exhibition is welcomed by an opening reception on Friday, June 6th, from 6-8 pm, and is accompanied by a public program series held in the artist’s studio on consecutive Wednesdays throughout June. Each program is formatted around a panel of fellow Minnesota painters in discussion with their peers and the public. These conversations are moderated by the artist and anchored by a recent text topical to Painting. 


Painting and Adaptation
Wednesday, June 11th
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Guest Artists: Andrea Carlson, Jaron Childs, David Rathman, Carolyn Swiszcz 

Painting and Adjacency
Wednesday, June 18th
6:30 - 8:30 pm
Guest Artists: Caroline Kent, Ruben Nusz, Garrett Perry, Mathew Zefeldt

Painting and Agency
Wednesday, June 25th
6:30 - 8:30 pm 
Guest Artists: Ute Bertog, Katelyn Farstad, Anne George, Joe Smith


Exhibition and programs will take place at:
2205 California Street NE
Studio 605
Minneapolis, MN 55418


The exhibition is open to the public during the listed events and by appointment. For more information or to make an appointment, please contact the artist at jehra@jehrapatrick.com.

Jehra Patrick is a fiscal year 2013 recipient of an Artist Initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. These activities are made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to legislative appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature; and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. 

North of the 45th at Devos Art Museum installation photos

North of the 45th at Devos Art Museum installation photos of my work.

GARRETT PERRY AT THE DEVOS ART MUSEUM JUNE 6 – AUGUST 3, 2014

Showing as part of North of the 45th: Seventh Annual Upper Midwest Juried Exhibition

Opening Reception: June 6th, 6–8pm

The North of the 45th is an annual juried exhibition of artists living in the geographical area north of the 45th parallel in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Each year a different juror is asked to select pieces for the exhibition from an open call for entries.

This year’s artists include Christopher Atkins, Aim Ren, Emily Bennett Beck, Zachary Betts, Rachel Breen, Kevin Breyfogle, Jesse Draxler, Walter Early, Austin Eckstrom, Kristina Estell, Linda King Ferguson, Lauren Flynn, Carol Irving, Emily Lanctot, Brian Nagel, Craig Neeson, Jehra Patrick, Neal Perbix, Garrett Perry, Nick Preneta, Jim Proctor, Jason Ramey and Cameron Wilcox.

Juror Kevin Buist, is an artist, writer, and exhibitions director for ArtPrize living in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

The DeVos Art Museum is located on the campus of Northern Michigan University in Marquette, MI. Always free and open to the public! More info: www.nmu.edu/devos.

Selected work for exhibition:

Original and Inverted Colors – Flower Diptych



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“all must die, but tis enough that her child liveth” After Ellen Skoro



While I Sleep The World Goes On Without Me.

Studio Update

Some works in progress, some are done. some are not.

Studio Update

Here is a snapshot of my studio with some new paintings I've been working on.

Why Are We Here?

Join us this Saturday the 27th at Familia Skateshop for the opening of "Why Are We Here?" featuring new artwork by myself, Joe Mertes and Juri Loginov. 

Studio Update

Detail

Studio Update

Growing Up Is A Drag

On Saturday the 14th Haus Salon in Minneapolis will be having the opening reception for "Growing Up Is A Drag" featuring some of my new paintings. Make sure to check it out. 

Growing Up Is A Drag
New Work by Garrett Perry
Saturday July 14th. 7:30-10 PM
Haus Salon. 4240 Nicollet Ave S. MPLS, MN 55409

Como Zoo Photos

Crystal and I went to the Como Zoo the other day. Here are some pics.