Don Perley

Don Perley began his career as a artist in 1975. His early work focused on hard-edge acrylic paintings and small conceptual pieces. In the ‘90’s, Don transitioned into painted assemblages created with everyday objects and abstract oil paintings bursting with color. A Midwest native, since 2004 he has lived and worked in Stamford, Connecticut.

Don’s work has appeared often in group shows and juried competitions in Connecticut and New York, including The Peter Marcelle Project, Southampton, NY, and the BWAC Brooklyn Re-Cycle show.
Don has an extensive youtube March 2021 studio interview on the ups and downs of a life as a self-taught artist, conducted by Liana Voia, the creator of Multiple Arts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HdwQnNgiWI

Artist Statement:
Don Perley’s work is improvisational, layered and complex. Secrets are revealed slowly, both in oil painting and deep relief assemblage. He is immersed in the raw and rough. However, just as in the improvisations of nature seen from a hiking trail, the raw and rough, upon close observation, are also delicate, soothing and healing.
Don’s paintings push the eye from one passage to another on a journey of color juxtapositions, while exploiting the physical properties of paint and i...

College at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey, USA. Graduate school at Rutgers University.

Solo shows:
Pleiades Gallery, New York City, June-July 2022

No Middleman Art Gallery online show, a project of the Edge of Humanity Magazine, April, 2021 https://gallery.edgeofhumanity.com/

Shahinian Fine Art, Rhinebeck, NY, 2014
Shahinian Fine Art, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2004
Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, 1991

Selected group shows:
Peter Marcelle Project, Southampton,
NY, 2015
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition,
juried Recycle exhibition, 2015Mangel Gallery,
The Painted Bride, Philadelphia, 1989
Dana Reich Gallery, San Francisco, 1977