A wide shot of a ceramics studio, featuring students working with pottery wheels and other tools.

Brianna Perry

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Publications: Untitled, Huner Francis, 2024 (anticipated); kiss make it, Overflow Journal, 2024; Apartment.Gallery, House on Fire, 2dcloud, 2023; If You’re Woke, You Can Dig It, Rootwork Journal: Vol 1., Issue 2, 2021; A Mountain That Looks Like a Woman, self-published, 2020. Exhibitions: Solo Exhibitions: t-shirt <3, Apartment Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2024; femcelanchoressflower1996, hatred 2, Brooklyn, NY, 2024. Selected Joint and Group Exhibitions: In the Group Chat, curated by Bambi Kunst, Collapse Contemporary, Chicago, IL, 2024;The Black Domestic/Living & Dining Roomscapes, curated by Saida Blair and Jordan Barrant, The Greystone Collective, Chicago, IL, 2024; soft answer, self-curated MFA Thesis Exhibition, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL, 2024; In Here Out There, curated by Noah Hook, The Plan, Chicago, IL, 2024; The Black Domestic, curated by Saida Blair and Jordan Barrant, SITE Galleries, Chicago, IL, 2023; Homeplace, curated by Saida Blair and Jordan Barrant, SAIC studios, Chicago, IL, 2022; Straight Lick, curated by Black Art Sessions, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 2021; Lunch Special, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL (with artist Ingrid
Wasmer), 2021.

Personal Statement

I am an artist-writer living and working in Chicago, Illinois. My practice spans from non-traditional painting using fabric dyes and video, to customized t-shirts and permissive graphic design accompanying short texts. My work is infused with a zillennial understanding of image making and consumption, along with negotiating African-American cultural specificity.

Portfolio

Digital and abstract grayscale image of two similar and organic teardrop shapes

Brianna Perry, Cover of Untitled, Huner Francis press

A monochromatic blue painted artwork of a flower

Brianna Perry, Beulah 1, 2023, bleached cotton

A green tie-dye Bob Marley shirt with buttons and a fur neckline

Brianna Perry, t-shirt<3, 2024, buttons, sequins, polyester thread, found cotton t-shirt

Purple tie-dye shirt with paint splatters and a fur-framed portrait in the middle

Brianna Perry, t-shirt<3, 2024, faux fur, inkjet image transfer, found cotton t-shirt

A black Elliott Smith Figure 8 shirt with rhinestones and a polka-dotted patch sewn on.

Brianna Perry, t-shirt<3, 2024, sequins, found cotton t-shirt

Courses

Title	Department	Catalog	Term
Studio Drawing: Multi-Level	Painting and Drawing	2040 (011)	Spring 2025
Description This drawing studio serves as a broad introduction to historical and contemporary drawing practices. This course presents drawing as an organizer of thought, experience, and image. Students will investigate a full range of drawing materials and supports. Lectures and exercises introduce various concepts of drawing, possibly including illusionistic form and space, gesture and expressive mark-making, or collage and found imagery, depending on the instructor?s emphasis. Designed to accommodate many skill levels, students can explore various creative strategies through technical drawing exercises, material explorations, and individual projects. Structured classroom critiques will bring drawing concepts into personal student work.		Class Number 1606 Credits 3
Painting Studio A: Multi-Level	Painting and Drawing	3001 (001)	Fall 2024
Description This course investigates painting materials, application, color, form, and ideas through contemporary and traditional methodologies. Designed to accommodate many skill levels, students can explore various creative strategies through a skill-based curriculum as well as individual projects. This course serves as a requirement and preparation for topic-based Painting Studio Multi-Level B classes.		Class Number 1898 Credits 3

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