Rachel Perry, Lost in My Life (Needlepoint Standing Arranging), 2023. Archival pigment print, 30 x 19 1/2 inches, 60 x 40 1/2 inches, or 91 1/4 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in My Life (Holding Yarn Ball with Canvases), 2023. Archival pigment print, 30 x 19 1/2 inches, 60 x 40 1/2 inches, or 91 1/4 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in My Life (Needlepoint Holding Canvas), 2023. Archival pigment print, 30 x 19 1/2 inches, 60 x 40 1/2 inches, or 91 1/4 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in My Life (Needlepoint Holding Yarn Ball), 2023. Archival pigment print, 30 x 19 1/2 inches, 60 x 40 1/2 inches, or 91 1/4 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in My Life (Needlepoint Sitting Stitching), 2023. Archival pigment print, 30 x 19 1/2 inches, 60 x 40 1/2 inches, or 91 1/4 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, FlowFlex Covid Test: Big Swiss, 2023. Wool and silk on canvas with artist frame,10 x 19 3/4 inches.
Rachel Perry, Mustard Seed Dark Chocolate: Romantic Comedy, 2023. Wool and silk on canvas with artist frame, 14 x 13 1/2 inches.
Rachel Perry, Caviar: How To Do Nothing, 2021. Wool and silk on canvas with artist frame, 16 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches.
Rachel Perry, Baby Beets: On Color, 2021-2023. Wool and silk on canvas with artist frame, 19 1/4 x 15 1/4 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in My Life (Fruit Stickers Behind Sofa), 2019. Archival pigment print, 20 x 30 inches, 40 x 60 inches, 60 x 90 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in My Life (Fruit Stickers Reclining Behind Sofa), 2019. Archival pigment print, 20 x 30 inches, 40 x 60 inches, or 60 x 90 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in My Life (Fruit Stickers Standing with Round), 2018. Archival pigment print, 90 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in my Life (Fruit Stickers Wax Paper), 2014. Archival pigment print, 90 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in my Life (Chiral Lines 1), 2016. Archival pigment print, 30 x 20 inches, 60 x 40 inches, or 90 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in my Life (Chiral Lines 2), 2016. Archival pigment print, 30 x 20 inches, 60 x 40 inches, or 90 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in my Life (Chiral Lines 3), 2016. Archival pigment print, 30 x 20 inches, 60 x 40 inches, or 90 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in my Life (Fruit Sticker Drawing), 2013. Archival pigment print, 30 x 20 inches, 60 x 40 inches, or 90 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in My Life (Inside Out Boxes), 2014. Archival pigment print, 30 x 20 and 90 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in my Life (Brillo), 2012. Archival pigment print, 30 x 20 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in my Life (Take Out Boxes), 2010. Archival pigment print, 90 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in my Life (Bread Tags), 2010. Archival pigment print, 90 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in My Life (Price Tags Reclining), 2017. Archival pigment print, 90 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in my Life (Price Tags Seated), 2017. Archival pigment print, 20 x 30, 40 x 60, or 90 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in my Life (Price Tags with Bag), 2016. Archival pigment print, 30 x 20 inches, 60 x 40 inches, or 90 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in my Life (Price Tags with Bundle), 2016. Archival pigment print, edition of 3, 90 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Chiral Lines 30, 2018. Graphite, marker, ballpoint, colored pencil on paper, 50 x 38 inches each panel, 50 x 76 inches overall.
Rachel Perry, Chiral Lines 36, 2020. Graphite, marker, ballpoint, colored pencil on paper, 50 x 38 inches each panel, 50 x 76 inches overall.
Rachel Perry, Chiral Lines 38, 2020. Marker, colored pencil, crayon on paper, 30 x 22 3/8 inches each panel, 30 x 44 3/4 inches total.
Rachel Perry, Chiral Lines 40, 2021. Marker, colored pencil, crayon on paper. 50 x 38 inches each panel, 50 x 76 inches overall.
Rachel Perry, Lost in my Life (Luxuries), 2012. Archival pigment print, 90 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in My Life (Me Too), 2017. Archival pigment print, 30 x 20, 60 x 40 or 90 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in My Life (Playmobil), 2010. Archival pigment print, 30 x 20, 60 x 40 or 90 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in my Life (Twist Tie Column), 2011. Archival pigment print, 90 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in My Life (White Twist Ties Bundle), 2012. Archival pigment print, 30 x 20 or 90 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in my Life (Twist Tie Web), 2011. Archival pigment print, 90 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in my Life (Tin Foil), 2012. Archival pigment print, 30 x 20 and 90 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in My Life (Silver Twist Ties #3), 2011. Archival pigment print, 90 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in My Life (Silver Twist Ties #2), 2011. Archival pigment print, 90 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in My Life (Receipts), 2011. Archival pigment print, 90 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in my Life (Receipts Back), 2016. Archival pigment print, 90 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Lost in My Life (Receipts Seated). Archival pigment print, 90 x 60 inches.
Rachel Perry, Vogue (de Castellane), 2011. Archival pigment print, 36 x 26 1/4 inches.
Rachel Perry, Vogue (Kirkwood), 2011. Archival pigment print, 36 x 26 1/4 inches.
Rachel Perry, Vogue (Wang), 2011. Archival pigment print, 36 x 26 1/4 inches.
Rachel Perry, Soundtrack to My Life: Freedom by George Michael (Copy Shop), 2017. Magazine clippings and polyvinyl adhesize on kozo paper. 96 x 43 inches.
Rachel Perry, Soundtrack to My Life: Darkness on the Edge of Town by Bruce Springsteen (Post Office), 2018. Magazine clippings and polyvinyl adhesive on kozo paper, 62 x 38 1/2 inches.
Rachel Perry, Couture Orange Flesh, 2007. Fruit stickers and archival adhesive on paper, 21 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches.
Rachel Perry, Creamy Green, 2019. Fruit Stickers and archival adhesive on paper, 21 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches.
Rachel Perry’s varied practice includes installation, sculpture, performance, photography, painting, and drawing. In response to trends she observes within contemporary culture, Perry often reconstitutes everyday materials in her work, such as supermarket labels, receipts, twist ties, and fruit stickers. Through reorganizing this material and the experiences of her daily life in visually surprising ways, Perry addresses a range of issues relating to consumerism and the business of living.
Her interest in how we consume, sort, process, and sift information is apparent in the series Lost in my Life (2009-2012). These photographic self-portraits present Perry camouflaged in a space made from the materials taken from other bodies of her work, such as collections of cereal boxes, takeout containers, and aluminum foil. Both humorous and visually alluring, these photographs also speak to the ubiquity of consumer culture in today’s world. Her most recent series, Chiral Drawings (2014-2016), began as an attempt to make a drawing using every single pen, pencil, crayon, and marker that she owns. Limiting her expression to a single line with each implement, made with her left hand and then her right, the works have a mesmerizing quality, evoking measurements of time, such as seismographs or EKGs. As with Lost in my Life, in Chiral Drawings Perry reveals poetic qualities within seemingly mundane materials.
July 18, 2018 – January 19, 2019
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Theorists Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer coined the term "culture industry" to denote the way in which products of human creativity have undergone a process of objectification. The consuming subject can no longer expect art to fulfill a liberating role in his life. On the contrary: artistic and cultural goods are themselves used as a kind of narcotic, obeying an oppressive social order that prevents independent and critical thought. With this in mind, the present cluster of exhibitions addresses the question: how can one produce an artistic intervention that will not be co-opted by the system? The artists displayed in it choose to test the system's limits in order to challenge its equilibrium. The cluster examines the options still available for artists to realize their subversive impulse, such as turning the weapons of the capitalist enemy against it: advertisements, spectacle, replication, reproduction, viral dissemination via the internet and more.
Artist-in-Residence, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA - ongoing
Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM 2016
Working stay at Casa Zia Lina, Elba, Italy August 2016
Anne Stark and Kurt Locher Fellowship 2015-2016 The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
A new Public Art Installation on the Anne H. Fitzpatrick facade
Work by Rachel Perry is included in the group show, (con)TEXT, at the Sharon Arts Center, New Hampshire. The exhibition will be on display through October 25 and will include a lecture by curator Tim Donovan on Thursday, September 19, from 5-6:30pm.
Work by David Hilliard and Rachel Perry is included in Stocked: Contemporary Art from the Grocery Aisles, at the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita, Kansas, on view through April 14, 2013. The exhibition presents work of contemporary artists who use the grocery store and consumption as their subject and will travel the United States following its Ulrich debut.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is currently displaying Rachel Perry's photograph, Lost in My Life (Fruit Stickers), as a part of the museum's permanent collection new acquisitions exhibition in the Linda Family Wing for Contemporary Art.
Rachel Perry's video, Karaoke Wrong Number, is currently on view as part of the exhibition ICA Collection Photography Rotation at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Welty's traveling solo museum show is on display at the Zimmerli Museum in New Brunswick, New Jersey through July 8, 2012. Additionally, a two-person collaboration with Sarah Hollis Perry (the artist's mother), called water, water, will be on display at Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, MA from July 14 – September 23, 2012.
Rachel Perry's solo show, 24/7, will be on display at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey, from January 28 - July 1. Originally organized by the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Massachusetts, this 10-year traveling survey of the artist's diverse practice features drawing, sculpture, collage, installation, video, photography, and performance.
Rachel Perry's solo exhibition - 24/7 - at the Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, was recently reviewed in Art in America. The exhibition travels to the Jane Voorhess Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University in January 2012.
24/7, Rachel Perry's first solo museum show will be on display at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum from January 29 until April 24, 2011. The exhibition will feature Welty's major works in drawing, sculpture, collage, installation, video, photography, and social media. For more information about the deCordova Museum, click here.
We are happy to announce that gallery artist Rachel Perry has been awarded a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, 2009-2010, as well as a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant (Sculpture), 2009.