Born NY, NY
Lives and works in Chicago, IL

My paintings explore the random, hectic movements in the day-to-day — one action bumps into another-one thought suddenly leads you to a very different one-one shape leans into the next. We move fast and disconnectedly. Sometimes it adds up to a whole — and sometimes it remains in pieces.

I'm interested in the deceptively simple interplay between colors, shapes and lines on canvas. While my work has an easy air to it, for me the work is actually about every day struggles-the struggle between our daily needs and our greater desires, betweeen keeping track of our keys and trying to exercise, between the desire to create meaning versus accepting some meaninglessness. In the end, I'm also asking when do shapes and forms make "sense"? When does meaning take place?

My work invites you to find the balance and sense in day-to-day life.

Selected Exhibitions

2015

"La Palette", Ed Paschke Art Center, Chicago, IL - Group Exhibition

"Centerline 2h015", Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL - Group Exhibition

2014

"Motor Row Gallery Show", Motor Row Gallery, Chicago, IL - Group Exhibition

"Centerline 2014", Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL - Group Exhibition

2013

Pop-Up Art Loop, 28 S. Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL - Group Exhibiton

2012

“Centerline 2012”, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL - Group Exhibition

“FaceMask”, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL - Group Exhibition

“I Can Do That”, Variable Space, Chicago, IL - Group Exhibiton

2011

“Let There Be Art”, Galleria 2150, Chicago, IL - Group Exhibition

“Centerline 2011”, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL - Group Exhibition

“Progression”, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL - Group Exhibiton

2010

“Chicago Art Open”, River East Art Center, Chicago, IL - Juried Exhibition

“Alumnae Exhibition”, Jill Newhouse Gallery, New York, NY - Invitational Exhibition

“50 Alderman / 50 Artists”, Johalla Projects, Chicago IL - Group Portrait Show

“Center Line 2010”, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago,IL - Group Exhibition

2009

“Centerline 2009”, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL - Group Exhibition,

2008

“Square Foot Show”, Art Gotham, New York, NY - Group Exhibition

“10th Annual Faces Show”, Upstream People Gallery - Juried Online Exhibition

2007

“ReEncounters”, s.e.e.d. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY - Two Person Exhibition

2006

Gallery 440, Brooklyn, NY - Juried Exhibition

Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ - Juried Exhibition

Mamaroneck Artists Guild, Larchmont, NY - Juried Exhibition

Anderson Center for the Arts, Red Wing, MN - Invitational Group Exhibition

Pont-Aven Contemporary Art Center, Pont-Aven, France - Group Exhibition

Mid-Atlantic Art, Exhibition, Norfolk, VA - Juried Exhibition

Open Center Gallery, New York, NY - Group Exhibition

Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA - Juried Exhibition

Art Students League, New York, NY - Group Exhibition

2004

Artist’s Museum, Washington DC - Juried Exhibition

2003

Organization of Independent Artists, New York, NY - Juried Exhibition

Pen and Brush Club, New York, NY - Juried Exhibition

“The Nature of Things”, Seton Gallery, New Haven, CT - Juried Exhibition

2001

Stanford Club of New York, New York, NY - Solo Exhibition

Education

2004-05

Art Students’ League, New York, NY

2000-01

School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

1998-99

Corcoran School of Art, Washington DC

Stanford University, Stanford, CA B.A.,1991

Artist Residencies

2006

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2005

Anderson Center for the Arts, Red Wing, MN

Awards

2005

Jerome Foundation(MN) grant for NYC emerging artists

2003

Daler-Rowney prize for Excellence

Publications

2011

“The Art of Clarisse Perrette” Highbrow Magazine

2010

Chicago Tribune, “50 Alderman / 50 Artists” Review

2006

Victory Hall, “Annual Show” Catalogue

2005

Republican Eagle (MN Newspaper), “5 Emerging Artists”

2005

Illustrations for Thistlewords Press(MN), The Hills

2003

Pen & Brush Club, Catalogue of Regional Art Exhibitions

2003

Seton Gallery, “The Nature of Things” Catalogue

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Current Shows

“La Palette” at the Ed Paschke Art Center
5415 W. Higgins Avenue, Chicago, IL
Show runs through November 29, 2015
www.edpaschkecenter.org

Centerline 2015
Zhou B Art Center, Chicago IL
Show runs through October 10th, 2015
Zhou B Art Center