Sybil M Perry - Artist

Sybil M. Perry

About the Artist

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   Education
   Gallery and Museum Exhibitions
   Selected Awards
   Selected Solo Exhibitions
   Juried/Group Exhibitions
   Collections
   Bibliography

About the Artist

"I am led to work on landscapes that make me catch my breath. They are not just a product of what I see, but are combined with my imagination and memories, and may at times have a story hidden in them. It's the beauty and sacredness of the earth captured on an emotional level. Water, mist and mountains continually intrigue me: the mountains of the Berkshires, the Hudson Valley, and Kyoto.

Color is what drives me and delights me. My process is meditative. Experimenting with layers of many colors enables me to explore. These pastel paintings, inspired by images gathered out-of-doors, are completed in my studio. It most pleases me to create intuitively something I had not quite expected. At the heart of it all is discovery."

Sybil Perry's influences have included Pierre Bonnard and Paul Klee, as well as Turner, Monet, and Odilon Redon. She graduated from William Smith College, Geneva, NY, and then received a BFA, summa cum laude, from the University of Bridgeport, CT. She has received awards in both national and regional exhibits: 2nd place in the Connecticut Women Artists, Inc. 76th Annual Open Juried Exhibition, the Silver Grumbacher Medallion, the Garfield Gallery Prize, the "Four Winners Invitational" at the Stamford Art Museum, and was included in the New Britain Museum of American Art's Juried Exhibition in December, 2003. Her work can be seen regularly at the Lenox Gallery of Fine Art, 69 Church Street, Lenox, Mass. You may phone the gallery at 413-637-2276.

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Education

		BFA in Painting, Summa cum Laude, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT

		Studied privately with Charles Reid, Claude Croney, Priscilla Munch, and Ann Touleman-Rothe.

		BA in English, William Smith College, Geneva, NY

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Gallery and Museum Exhibitions

	2003-2008	Lenox Gallery of Fine Art, Lenox, MA

	2006	Gallery 53, Connecticut Pastel Society Juried Show (Liz Haywood-Sullivan, juror), Meriden, CT

	2006	Insiders/Outsiders Art Gallery, “Holiday Show,” Cornwall Bridge, CT

	2006	The Schoolhouse Gallery, “Juried Exhibit,”(Lee Pope, juror), Croton Falls, NY

	2005	Insiders/Outsiders Art Gallery, “35 of CT’s Greatest,” Cornwall Bridge, CT

	2003	New Britain Museum of American Art, 34th Annual Juried Exhibition, (Juror, Power Boothe, Dean, Hartford Art School, U. of Hartford) New Britain, CT

	1999	Artists Known and New, Paris-New York-Kent Gallery, Kent, CT

	1992	Woman Vision, Gallery 53, Meriden, CT

	1988	Winter Solstice VI, The Sound Shore Gallery, Port Chester, NY

	1988	Gallery Artists Choose Artists, Art/Place Gallery, Southport, CT

	1987-1990	The Connecticut Gallery, Marlborough, CT, (small abstract pastels)

	1983, 85, 87, 88, 89	Stamford Art Museum, Connecticut Art Competition, Juried Annual, Stamford, CT

	1987	Leonhardt Gallery, Stamford Art Museum, Stamford, CT ‘Four Winners Invitational’ (four-person)

	1982	The Bruce Museum Juried Invitational, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT

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Selected Awards

	2005	Second Place, “Connecticut Women Artists, Inc. 76th Annual Open Juried Exhibition,” Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs. (Dr. Diana Dimodica Mille, Director, Thomas J. Walsh Gallery, Fairfield University, Juror)

	2000	Martha Boschen Porter Fund individual artist’s grant, (travel and research in Kyoto, Japan, leading to new paintings)

	1987	Silver Grumbacher Medallion, Milford Fine Arts Council, National Juried Exhibition, Milford, CT

	1987	Four Winners Invitational, Leonhardt Gallery, Stamford Art Museum, Stamford, CT

	1984	Third Place, Drawings, Rowayton Arts Center, Rowayton, CT (Gabor Peterdi, Juror)

	1983	First Prize, Mixed Media, Rowayton Arts Center Awards Show, Rowayton, CT

	1979	Garfield Gallery Prize, The 78th Annual Exhibition, New Haven Paint and Clay Club, New Haven, CT

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

	2009	Sybil M. Perry, Exhibit of Water Paintings, Sharon Historical Society, Sharon CT

	2008	Sybil M. Perry, Into the Woods, New Work, Cornwall Library, Cornwall, CT

	2004	Sybil M. Perry, New Pastel Landscapes, The Cornwall Arts Collection Gallery, West Cornwall, CT

	2003	Sybil M. Perry, Mountains, Water and Mist: Honoring Kyoto, The Gallery at the Oliver Wolcott Library, Litchfield, CT

	1999	Sybil M. Perry, Back to the Land, New Work, Cornwall Library, Cornwall, CT (Ellen Moon, Curator)

	1996	Nudes in Watercolor, The David Gavin Gallery, Millerton, NY

	1993	Landscapes of the Spirit, Wainwright House, Rye, NY

	1989	Sybil Perry, A Retrospective, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT

	1986	Sybil M. Perry, Small Watercolors, Westport-Weston Arts Council, Westport, CT

	1984	Sybil Perry, Leigh Kelly, and Lee Berardino, A Three-Woman Exhibition, Waveny Carriage Barn, New Canaan, CT

	1981	Sybil Perry, New Dimensions, Gallery 5, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT

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Juried/Group Exhibitions

	2007	The Gallery at Kent, KAA, “84th Juried President's Show,” Kent, CT

	2006	Bedford Historical Hall, “34th Annual Juried Art Show:Bedford,” (jurors: Bartholomew Bland, Curator of Exhibitions, Hudson River Museum; Neil Watson, Director Katonah Museum, Candace Dwan, Candace Dwan Gallery)

	2005	Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, “76th Annual Open Juried Exhibition, Connecticut Women Artists, Inc.”

	2004	Welles Gallery, “Housatonic River Summer 2004,” Juried Art Exhibition, Lenox, MA, (Richard Boyle, former Chief Curator for Paintings and Sculpture, Cincinnati Art Museum, one of three Jurors)

	1993	Drawing the Lines, Farmington Art Guild, Farmington, CT

	1992	Revisioning the Future, Lyman Center for the Performing Arts, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT

	1990- 1991	Oak Room Juried Exhibition, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT

	1989	Significant Others, Juried Invitational, Jewish Community Center, Stamford, CT

	1987	The Unconventional Self, Juried Invitational, Jewish Community Center, Stamford, CT

	1983, 1987	Juried Show, Art Society of Old Greenwich, Greenwich, CT

	1985	The Faber Birren Color Award Show, Juried National, Stamford Art Association Gallery, Stamford, CT

	1979	The New Haven Paint and Clay Club Juried Annual, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT

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Collections

		Emmet, Marvin and Martin, New York, NY

		Stroock and Lavan, New York, NY

		Work represented in private collections both in the United States and abroad.

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Bibliography

Jennifer Cooper, “Sharon Artist Wins Grant To Study in Japan,” interview, The Lakeville Journal, Sept., 2000.

Vivien Raynor, “105 CT Artists Picked for Stamford Show, (the Stamford Museum), The New York Times, CT Section, Feb. 5, 1989, p. 24.

Sybil M. Perry, “Exhibiting Artist to Speak at Sacred Heart University: My Evolving Journey As a Painter,” Fairfield Citizen News, Feb. 1st, 1989.

Vivien Raynor, “Artists Present Other Artists,” The New York Times, CT Section, Jan. 17, 1988, p. 26.

David Krauss, “From Abstract Sculpture to Pencil Sketches,” interview of 3 artists, The Stamford Mail, Aug. 6-12, 1987, p.20.

William Zimmer, “A Blithe Mix in Stamford Exhibit,” The New York Times, CT Section, Feb. 8, 1987, p.31.

Image of “New Era I,” watercolor, on CT This Week Art page, The New York Times, CT Section, Dec. 27, 1981, p. 16.

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Sybil M. Perry, 860-672-1434, sybilmperry6@att.net