A cake on a plate in a house tells a story that is unforgettable because of the people who were there once.
Temporality. Memory. Stories.
I am thinking of the birthday cakes as a timeline—spanning a lifetime, perhaps. I'm interested in objective abstraction—the iconic shape of a birthday cake and what it represents . . . levity and gravity at once.
Artist Bio education Brooklyn College (CUNY), MFA painting, 2008 Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, 2000–2005; BFA painting, minor in art history, 2005 New York Studio School, drawing marathons (Orvieto, Italy, summer 2005; NYC, February 2006) International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture in Umbria, Italy, summer 2004 Wesleyan University, GLSP (Graduate Liberal Studies Program), 2000–2001 selected exhibitions 2009 Pilot Pen Tennis Tournament, New Haven, CT, “The Players' Lounge Invitational Exhibition” (curated) Hull's Gallery, New Haven, CT, “Summer Salon II” (curated) Art Place, Yale Medical Group-Yale Physicians Building, New Haven, CT, “Art Place XV” (curated) Atticus, New Haven, CT, “Cosmos 1208” (solo) A-Space, West Haven, CT, “Noir Transformed” (curated) Keyes Gallery, WWM Library, Stony Creek, CT, “Monday Night Drawing” (invitational) 2008 Hull's Gallery, New Haven, CT, “Open Studios Encore” (curated) ArtSpace, New Haven, CT, “CONNcentric” (juried) Brooklyn College 2008 MFA Thesis Exhibition, New York, NY The Farm on Adderley, Brooklyn, NY, (solo) 2007 Bowery Gallery, New York, NY, “National Competition Juried Show” (John Walker, juror) Hull's Gallery, New Haven, CT, “Open Studios Encore” (curated) Visions Toward Wellness Gallery, Stony Creek, CT, (invitational group show) Essex Art Association Gallery, Essex, CT, “Kay Knight Clarke, Barbara Marks, Diana Perron: Paintings 2007” Essex Art Association, Essex, CT, “Exhibitionism” (juried) 2006 Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT, “Thirtieth Anniversary Gala Exhibition” (juried) 2005–2007 ArtSpace and City-Wide Open Studios, New Haven, CT 2006 Essex Art Association Gallery, Essex, CT, “Kay Knight Clarke, Barbara Marks, Diana Perron: New Work” Artworks Gallery, Hartford, CT, “EAA at Artworks” (curated) Essex Art Association, Essex, CT, “Horizons” (juried), “Bloom Where You Are Planted” (juried) Gallery One, Old Saybrook, CT, “Show 6 / Show in a Show” (curated) i.p.s. studio/gallery, New Haven, CT, “The Wood Pile Installation” 2005 Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT, “Fifth Annual Alumni Exhibition” (April Gornik, juror) Essex Art Association Gallery, Essex, CT, “Kay Knight Clarke, Barbara Marks, Diana Perron: Recent Work” Guilford Art League, Guilford, CT, “Arts Connecticut” (juried) Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT, BFA Exhibition 2004 Essex Art Association Gallery, Essex, CT, “Eight Emerging Artists” Galleria Giotto, Montecastello di Vibio, Italy 2003 Keyes Gallery, WWM Library, Stony Creek, CT, “Barbara Marks, Diana Perron, Linda Carleton, Wallie Festa Hammer: Recent Work” Copley Society, Boston, MA, “Annual Student Exhibition” (juried regional exhibition) awards 2008 Graduate Dean's List in Recognition of Excellence in Scholarship, Brooklyn College (CUNY), Brooklyn, NY Charles G. Shaw Memorial Award for Excellence in Painting, Brooklyn College (CUNY), Brooklyn, NY 2007, 2008 Graduate Investment Program Research Materials Grant, Brooklyn College (CUNY), Brooklyn, NY 2005 Award for Excellence in Art History, Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT
