'...and then there was...' Art Show by Coral Perry

ON VIEW - July 3rd - 30th

CLOSING RECEPTION - July 24th from 6-8pm

Artist Statement:
My practice considers erosion both a destructive and a generative force, listening to how
things fall apart and re-form. My process includes washing printed images of baptism
rivers, weaving construction wattles, and gathering water from sacred sites. Erosion is a
slow undoing but also a carver, deepening new crevices of being. Through Southern Black spirituality, I understand water as a reverberating agent of wear/loss, and as a humbled site of cleansing and renewal. This duality propels my work into seeing the breakdown of matter, memory, and body; not as endings, but as entry points for transformation.

Artist Bio
Cory D. Perry (b. 1989) is an internationally recognised multimedia and performance
artist. Perry’s projects investigate certain properties of water: erosion, frequencies, and
Site. Their process includes washing printed images of baptism rivers, weaving
construction wattles, and harvesting sounds from sacred sites. Perry is a graduate of the
University of Arkansas/School of Art Sculpture Program and attended the Post-
baccalaureate Sculpture and Museum Research program at the Kwame Nkrumah
University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. They received their Master’s
degree in Fine Arts from the Art,Theory,Practice department at Northwestern University
in Evanston, IL. They are a recipient of the Windgate-Lamar Fellowship (2019) and the
Sexualities Project at Northwestern University Fellowship (2022). They were an
honorary international artist for Chale Wote Performance Art Festival in Accra, Ghana
(2019), and A featured artist and performer for the Smithsonian Folklife Festival (2023)
in Washington, DC. Perry’s projects have been shown at the South Side Community
Arts Center (Chicago); Arning Gallery (Houston); Smithsonian Institution (D.C.); Form
and Concept Gallery (Santa Fe, NM); KNUST (Accra, Ghana), among many others.