ABOUT / CV
Installing a 43’ weaving of paper bedes (prayers) for victims of gun violence.
Susan Perkins’ work is about contemplation. The work is clean and simply presented, yet speaks loudly. She uses a restrained pallet for less distraction, to create empty space, and to remain neutral —allowing the viewer to bring individual significance to her works.
Her work often reflects transformation – the ever present shifting and reshaping of life. As a part of her personal meditation, Perkins regularly engages in mark making with sumi ink on kozo paper—her personal calligraphy. The meditation marks are then transformed – torn, collaged or rolled into beads. Lokta paper weavings are created in a grid pattern then painted on kozo paper making a grid impression representing community.
She believes we are interlinked — if one is affected, we are all affected. She further believes our greatest strength comes from our connectivity to one another.
Perkins lives in Charleston, South Carolina. She began her professional life in the field of journalism. That enhanced her method of investigating the natural world through her oil landscapes. As a result of her training as a spiritual director, her art made way for simplicity and vulnerability – her artwork is part of our milieu encouraging conversations for change.
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Selected Exhibits
2021 Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, South Carolina
2021 The City Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina - June through August - SOLO SHOW
2020 Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, South Carolina
2020 The City Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina - March through July - SOLO SHOW
2019 Corrigan Gallery, LLC, Charleston, South Carolina
2016 JM Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2016 ArtFields Juried Show, Lake City, South Carolina
2016 Piccolo Spoleto Festival Juried Art Exhibition
2015 Corrigan Gallery, LLC, Charleston, South Carolina
2013 Cohn Drennan Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2012 Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, Texas - New Texas Talent Award Show
2012 The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas - Group Show
2011 Artizen Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas
2010 Texas Visual Arts Association Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Art Projects
2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Visual Vigil (art commenced in 2016 yet reflects 1903 to present day)
2014 Nexus Dreamweaver
Awards
2012 New Texas Talent
Press
2020 Charleston City Paper
2018 CHS Today
2017 Art Mag
2016 Carolina Arts Magazine
2013 Patron Magazine
2013 Dallas Modern Luxury
2013 Visual Art Source
2007, 2008 Fine Art in Dallas Engagement Book
Selected teaching/leadership
Expressive Art
2005 - 2016 Dallas, Texas
2006 Santa Cruz Abajo, Honduras
2004 Christianapolis, Brazil
2002 - 2004 Asheville, North Carolina
1995 - 2000 Louisville, Kentucky
contemplating art
2011, 2012 Meadows Museum, Dallas Texas
2013 Spiritual Ministries Institute, Dallas Texas
Professional work
Doe Anderson Advertising Agency, Louisville, Kentucky
Freelance Film and Video Production, Louisville, Kentucky
Board positions
2017 - 2020 Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, South Carolina
2010 - 2015 Meadows Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
2013 - 2016 Nexus Recovery Center - Developed Art Mentoring Program, Dallas, Texas
1990 J. B. Speed Art Museum, Alliance Board - Secretary, Louisville, Kentucky
EDUCATION
University of South Carolina, BA, Columbia, South Carolina
Gordan-Conwell Theological Seminary, Charlotte, North Carolina
Spiritual Ministries Institute, Certified Spiritual Director, Dallas, Texas
