Rachel Perry (born 1962, formerly Rachel Perry Welty) is an American artist. She is known for conceptual works using drawing, photography, video, collage, sculpture and performance, which address “the fleeting nature of experience, the elusiveness of desire, and the persistence of objects in a throwaway culture.” Art critic Jerry Saltz has written that her work “not only grappl with consumerism but [she is] just about swallowed whole by it.” Her work also considers themes of gender identity, narcissism, privacy and information overload.
She has exhibited widely throughout the United States and internationally, including a solo exhibition at Yancey Richardson Gallery in 2015, about which art critic Roberta Smith wrote, “…obsessive delights await in this strange and beautiful show…”
She lives and works in Gloucester, Massachusetts and Brooklyn, New York.
Table of Contents
- 1 Career
- 1.1 Rachel Perry Welty 24/7
- 1.2 Notable Works
- 1.3 Style
- 1.4 Reverse the Aging Process of Your Face: A Simple Technique That Works
- 1.5 Trademark Fine Art Views of Joshua Tree IX by Rachel Perry, 35x47
- 1.6 The Dark Side of the Moose: Chapter One
- 1.7 Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: Honor Your Emotions, Nurture Your Self, and Live with Confidence
- 1.8 If the Shoe Fits
- 1.9 I’ll Take Care of You
- 1.10 Rachel Zoe Project: Season 1
- 1.11 Once Upon a Time
- 1.12 Fight Song
- 1.13 Ratchet Belt Reversible,Bulliant Mens Golf Sports Belt For Casual Jeans Pants,One Belt with 2 Colors
Career
Perry’s affect can be found in the museum collections of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Baltimore Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, the Montclair Art Museum, The Cornell Fine Arts Museum, and the Addison Gallery of American Art, among others. Her first solo museum show, titled was held at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in 2011.
Since 2009, Perry has been performing on Twitter, tweeting in imitation of per day, every day, the daily liveliness of a involved artist in 140 characters exactly.
Rachel Perry Welty 24/7
In her DeCordova exhibit, titled Rachel Perry Welty 24/7 (on view January 29, 2011 – April 24, 2011) the works included focused upon aspects of daily life, or what she calls “the event of living,” using materials ranging from spam emails and grocery receipts to point of view ties and stickers from fruit. The press release for the exhibit described elaborated, “mixing a Minimalist aesthetic in the reveal of Pop humor, Welty’s artworks uncover the poetic elements in the everyday.” Later in 2011 the exhibit traveled to the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University.
Notable Works
One of Perry’s best known works is the video Karaoke Wrong Number (2004) in which the player lip-syncs to five years of wrong number messages. This play in entered the amassing of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston in 2007.
Other notable works included in her solo exhibit in 2011 at DeCordova include Sticker Paper, a wallpaper collage of fruit stickers, and New and Improved, made occurring of dry cleaning and grocery store twist ties. In addition to these installation works, she presented a series of photographs titled Lost in my Life, self-portraits in which the performer is approximately camouflaged in sets composed of unidentified materials, often featuring new artworks in these images.
In 2016, as an Artist-in-Residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Perry created a stand-in installation for the museum’s facade that asked the question “What get you essentially want?” The installation was on view from January until June 2016. The Ask around which the pretense was centered was the subject line of a spam email Perry received, and she was inspired to make clear formal artistic decisions from materials she encountered in the museum archive during her residency.
Style
Many of Perry’s works are intensely personal, since the run of the mill materials or detritus composed in the pieces were collected by the artist herself, often amassed on peak of periods of several years. In Karaoke Wrong Number, for example, the muddled number voicemails she lip-synced to were left upon her phone. and for New and Improved, Perry used twist ties she had been collecting before 1997.
Last update 2021-08-06