Description

Perry Obee was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He works across multiple media including painting, drawing, and printmaking. In addition to making his own work, Perry is a Tamarind Master Printer and owner of Obee Editions, a collaborative printmaking studio in Black Mountain, NC. Perry has taught painting, drawing, and printmaking courses at numerous colleges and universities including the University of Connecticut, the University of North Carolina Asheville, Western Carolina State University, and a recent position as Visiting Lecturer in Printmaking at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has been a resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center and is a 2007 alumni of the Chautauqua School of Arts. His prints are held in private and museum collections including the Slater Memorial Museum in Norwich, CT and the Print Club of Albany. He lives with his wife and two year old daughter in Asheville, North Carolina. Visit: www.obeeeditions.com to learn more about Perry. Perry's personal work is rooted in observation of the people, places, and things in his life. He is interested in the expression of form through economy, gesture, and color. Obee is inspired by the liberated use of color and abstract visual language honed by Modern and Post-Modern artists, such as Matisse, Bonnard, and later, Diebenkorn. Additionally, he is influenced by the graphic quality and economic approach to image making found in Japanese and Chinese Landscape Painting. The work represents the artist’s attempt to capture an experience using the formal languages of painting, drawing, and printmaking.