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Celebrating global organizations promoting education for woman and girls
This collection of works by Francine Perlman addresses profound contemporary challenges closest to her heart and mind, as well as works that express the sheer joy of art making.
Francine Perlman has been exhibiting sculpture, constructions/installations, and works on paper, especially monotypes, since 1985. In 2005, she began using newspapers sculpturally as representative of communities, expressing all aspects of a community’s political, cultural, and day-to-day lives. Perlman’s 2023 exhibition, Listen Closely, Palestinians Have a Seat at the Table, addressed Israeli policies in the West Bank, and incorporated newspapers in Hebrew and Arabic, in separate objects. In this exhibition, in Hear Us, Shalom, Salaam, she once again uses Hebrew and Arabic, only this time combined in a gesture of peaceful coexistence.
Perlman’s 2017 installation, Doors Open/Doors Close, spoke to the plight of women who have escaped domestic violence, only to find themselves in shelters, often with their children, losing community and property, and living in secrecy for their safety. Dreaming of Open Doors presents the dire predicament of homelessness, and dreams of spaciousness, choice, freedom, and opportunity.
In 2021, her show Then and Now presented abstract oil pastels, and pages from a book she contributed to a collaboration, Arc of the Viral Universe. The joy of artmaking is felt in all of Perlman’s work, whether narrative or abstract.
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Solo Exhibitions:
| 2021 | “Now and Then,” Now: pages from Art of the Viral Universe,Then: oil pastels, Ceres NYC |
| 2020 | “Intersections,” drawings, Midoma Gallery, New York City. “16 Monotypes,” New York Public Library Morningside Heights “Monotypes,” Ceres Gallery, NYC |
| 2019 | “Prints and Drawings,” monotypes and drawings on paper, Society for the Advancement of Judaism, NYC |
| 2018 | “Things From Home,, works on paper, New York Public Library, Morningside Heig |
| 2017 | “Doors Open, Doors Close,” Installation about domestic violence, Ceres Gallery, NYC “Then Till Now,” works on paper, New York Public Library, Morningside Heights |
| 2015 | “Stacks,” works on paper, New York Public Library, Morningside Heights |
| 2014 | “In My Houses,” sculpture and drawings, Society for the Advancement of Judaism, NYC “Lost in Infinity”, works on paper, New York Public Library, Morningside Heights |
| 2012 | “Where Lines Can Go”, Ceres, NYC |
| 2007 | Abstract Works on Paper”, Society for the Advancement of Judaism, NYC |
| 2005 | “Shelter: Installations by Francine Perlman”, The Fine Arts Gallery, Westchester Community College, Valhalla, NY |
| 2002 | “House: ב׳ת”, City College, the Great Hall, NY |
| 2000 | “Rooms”, construction, Ceres Gallery, NY |
| 1999 | “Works on Paper”, Fox & Fowle, Architects, NY “Soft Grids”, construction, Ceres Gallery, NY |
| 1998 | “Open Shelter”, construction, Eldridge Street Synagogue, NY |
| 1996 | “Constructions in Sylvia Blue and Other Colors”, Ceres Gallery, NY |
| 1995 | “Small Works on Paper”, T. Schreiber Theater Gallery, NY |
| 1994 | “Elements of the Natural World”, Invitational installation, Ceres Gallery, NY |
Selected Group Exhibitions:
| 2019 | “Endangered Earth,” Ceres, NYC “Covello at PS 109: Making Art Work,” El Barrio’s ArtSpace PS 109, New York City |
| 2017 | “The Primacy of Color III,” Carriage Barn Gallery, New Canaan, CT |
| 2016 | “Summer Celebration,” Ceres, NYC “Go Figure,” Sculptors Alliance, Governors Island, NY “The Primacy of Color,” New York Society of Women Artist, George Billis Gallery |
| 2015 | Collaborative Concepts, “The Farm Project 2015,” Garrison, NY, outdoor sculpture “The Jew as The Other,” Abrazo Interno Gallery Clemente Center, NYC “Heart,” New York Society of Women Artists, Weil-Cornell Med Center Library, NYC “Speaking Volumes – And Voids,” Sculpture Alliance, Governor’s Island, NYC “Alternet,” Artists in the Archives collaborative exhibition, traveling since 2013 |
| 2014 | “The Farm Project 2014,” Collaborative Concepts, Garrison, NY, outdoor sculpture “Draftmen’s Congress,” New Museum NYC New York Society of Women Artists, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY “Birds of the Air, Fishes of the Sea,” First Presbyterian Church, NYC “Brains, Boobs, & Backbones”, Paramount Theater, Peekskill, NY “Alternet,” collaboration, City College, NYC, travelling 2013-2015 |
| 2013 | “Meet My Uterus,” Ceres, NYC “Women Make Art,” CCNY |
| 2011 | Hammond Museum, North Salem NY Ceres Gallery, NYC |
| 2010 | CCNY Women Make Art |
| 2005 | CCNY Alumni Biennial, City College, NY |
| 2004 | Bonn Biennale, “Live From New York” and “Globalia”, FrauenMuseum, Bonn, Germany |
| 2003 | Aaron Davis Hall, Alumni Exhibition, City College, NY |
| 2002 | Dialogues”, Ceres Gallery, New York City |
| 1999 | Saltonstall Foundation, Ithaca, NY; Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY; Kingsborough Community College, New York City |
| 1998 | Kunstlerforum, Bonn, Germany; National Jewish Museum, Washington, DC |
| 1997 | Ceres Gallery, New York City; A.I.R. Invitational, New York City |
| 1996 | Albright-Knox Museum, Members’ Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Eastern Regional WCA Exhibition, Cambridge, MA |
| 1995 | State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY; Ceres Gallery, NYC |
| 1992 | “Women: Diversity & Vision”, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY |
| 1989-1992 | “Divine Line”, traveling exhibit, Arizona Council of the Arts |
| 1988 | Boston Women Artists: WCA Invitational, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC |
| 1987 | Seven Artists from the Distillery”, Boston City Hall |
| 1985 | Seven Sisters Gallery, Black Mountain, NC |
Awards and Commissions:
| 2017 | Residency, November-December, Carter Burden Center, East Harlem, NYC |
| 2016 | Honorable Mention, “Go Figure,” Sculptors’ Alliance exhibit, Governor’s Island, NYC |
| 2004 | Cork Gallery, City College Art Alumni Exhibition, Honorable Mention |
| 2002 | Alumni Association of City College, Thesis presentation award, CUNY |
| 2001 | Therese McCabe Ralston Connor Fund, City College, CUNY |
| 2000 | American Association of University Women, Career Development Grant |
| 1998 | Residency, Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Ithaca, NY |
| 1992 | Stage set, “Paul Bowles”, Merkin Hall, NY |
Collections:
| Workmen’s Circle, NYC | |
| Frauen Museum, Bonn, Germany | |
| Columbia University, NYC, department of Biochemistry | |
| Catalog 18 Jewish Women Artists in the libraries of the Brooklyn Museum, NYC | |
| The Jewish Museum, NYC; The Museum of Modern Art, NYC | |
| National Museum of Women in the Arts, DC; Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC |
Bibliography and Publications:
| Judith Escalona, CUNY TV, URBAN U, December 2019 | |
| Sarah Cascone, “Editors’ Picks: 8 Things to Do in New York This Week,” January 3, 2017, https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/editors-picks-january-nyc-802913 | |
| Amy Lipton, “Art in the Pasture,” Phillipstown.info, October 3, 2015, http://philipstown.info/2015/10/03/art-in-the-pasture/ | |
| Susan Hodara, “But Will The Cows Like It?,” The New York Times, Sept. 19, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/nyregion/in-garrison-ny-art-meant-to-withstand-curious-cattle.html?_r=0 | |
| Joel Simpson, The NewYork Art World, Spring 2013, p. 36, www.thenewyorkartworld.com/img/mag/M_spring_2013_Ceres.pdf (p. 3) | |
| Christina zu Hecklenburg, “Trummer des Alltags”, General Anzeiger, Bonn, July 5, 2004 | |
| Catalog: Diversity & Tradition, CCNY Alumni Biennial, 2005 | |
| Christina zu Hecklenburg, “Trummer des Alltags”, General Anzeiger, Bonn, July 5, 2004 | |
| Christina zu Hecklenburg, “Trummer des Alltags”, General Anzeiger, Bonn, July 5, 2004 | |
| Catalog: Bonn Biennale 2004, Bonn, Germany, “Live From New York”, Frauenmuseum | |
| Catalog: “Women: Diversity & Vision”, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, S.I., NY 1992 |
Education:
| MFA City College, NYC | |
| BA Cornell University, Ithaca NY |