Artist Statement

I experience immediate gratification from creating art.  That feeling along with a twist of fate is surely the reason I became an artist. When I was ten, my family moved to a very small town in the Texas Panhandle where I had the good fortune of moving in across the street from a family of artists. One Sunday afternoon I crossed the dusty street and was invited to "play in the mud".  They dropped a hunk of red clay in front of me, and without hesitation I sculpted the bust of man.  After that, art supplies and two meals a day awaited me across the street until I graduated from high school.

I then took my passion for creating to the decorative arts industry where I spent fifteen years working with the leading interior designers. I explored different mediums and began painting on a larger scale with murals and trompe l'oeil.  In 2001 I continued to reach deeper within myself to imagine the world and my art in a hyper realistic, slightly surreal style.  I was launched into what was a perfect fit between my minds eye and the canvas, and I created enough to produce my first show, which was held in Dallas at the Boyd Gallery. I continued trying to produce art and work within the design industry until the summer of 2006 when I made the professional decision to pursue my artistic career full time.  Since, my style has continued to veer toward the surreal. I am producing paintings and sculptural collage works that I describe as organic surrealism. I am combining the natural with the artificial to create synthetic harmony. 

Exhibitions Include:

Portals Limited, Chicago, Group Exhibition September 2008

Portals Limited, Chicago, Solo Exhibition June 2008

Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, Group Exhibition December 2008

Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, Solo Exhibition October 2007

American Fine Art, Dallas, Group Exhibition Spring/Fall 2007

Perry Nicole Fine Art, Memphis, Group Exhibition January 2007

Wally Workman Gallery, Austin, Group Exhibition December 2006

American Fine Art, Dallas, Group Exhibition Spring/Fall 2006

Perry Nicole Fine Art, Memphis, Dual Exhibition January 2005

Perry Nicole Fine Art, Memphis, Solo Exhibition October 2003

Stag Art Gallery, New York City, Solo Exhibtion September 2002

J. Nelson, Miami, Solo Exhibition April 2002

Boyd Gallery, Dallas, Solo Exhibition September 2001

Goodrich Gallery, Dallas, Solo Exhibition August 2001

Longview Museum, Longview,TX Group Exhibition May 2001

Selected Corporate and Private Collections:

Wyndham Hotels, Dallas, Philadelphia, Kansas, Los Angeles

Cole-Hahn, Dallas

Trammel S. Crow, Dallas

Mayor Laura Wheat, Westlake TX

Doug Wheat, Westlake TX

Janet Reeves Zimmerman, Santa Fe

Perry Henderson, ASID, Dallas

S.F. Isenberg, New York City

JoAnn Hegre, Paris France

William Miller Construction, Dallas

Fredrick Winston, Half Moon Bay, California

Charity Support with Art:

Black Tie Dinner

AIDS Arms Life Walk

Grace Unlimited

Ally's House

The Human Society, Paws Cause

Gilda's Club

GLAAD, Matthew Shepard Foundation

The Lamplighter School

HPHS Art & Band Program

Lakewood Montessori

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