P r e v i o u s   E x h i b i t s

Selected Works
by Joyce Werwie Perry
March/April 2008
Gallery 30
Sewickley Herald Office
Beaver Street, Sewickley PA

Make Noise
(Pittsburgh Penguins)


 
Joyce Werwie Perry's oil painting:
Sewickley United Methodist Church on Broad Street
featured on the cover of the Spring catalog
and on POSTERS AVAILABLE NOW
to support Sweetwater Center for the Arts

www.sweetwaterartcenter.org
as part of its exhibition:

Celebrate Sewickley
April, 2008
Sweetwater Center for the Arts
Broad Street
Sewickley PA

The River

 

The Bridge Ladies - 1911

 

The Ohio at Dusk

 

Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley  PA
 
Four local artists:
Linda Breen
Douglas Brown
David Saint-Jacques
Joyce Werwie Perry
 
The artists share their views of the Ohio River and its relationship to the Quaker Valley region
from a personal, contemporary and historical perspective.
Exhibition also includes a collaborative installation 
See more on artists/owner page

 

April 2007

Hangingbyathread Exhibition

Opening Reception: Friday, April 20, 2007 6-9pm
Runs thru: Friday, May 18, 2007



    

Above Images: (left to right):
Mateer -"Make Me Gotta Holler"
Ogren - "Coiled Maskhara 015"

Towner - "Gameboard"

Hornell - "#6 Brush"
 

Prominent Pittsburgh fiber artists display their ecclectic talents as part of FOCUS ON FIBER, a citywide promotion of this medium throughout this spring and summer in conjunction with Fiberart International 07. Types of work include quilts, wall hangings, felt and beaded jewelry, weaving, collage, sculpture and wearable art.

Meet the Artists date is Saturday, April 28 2-4pm
 

Participating Artists:
 
Janet Bass
Linda Breen
Carolyn Carson
Tina Williams Brewer
Mary Coleman
Katherine Dunlevey (Cleveland)
Betty Elias
Nancy Hays
Adrienne Heinrich
Lori Hornell
Donna Bogosto Kearns
Laura Marin
Penny Mateer
Mary Mazziotti
Jane Ogren
Angela Pasquale
Renae Perry
Terri Perpich
Ceres Rangos
Marinda Stretavsky
Cicily Tarapchak
Mary Towner
 

 

Stop by the gallery for a 2-for-1 admission to the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center to view its textile exhibit and visit www.fiberartinternational.org for more info on other exhibits around town.

 

October 2006

Joyce Werwie Perry - Coal Miner's Family

Joyce Werwie Perry will be speaking about her piece "The Coal Miner's Family" and other works at:

 The Westmoreland Museum of American Art Thursday October 12
During the Juried Biennial that runs from September 17 - October 15, 2006.

The painting was selected by Virginia Mecklenburg, curator at the Smithsonian American At Museum. Call the gallery for more details.



The Coal Miner's Family
Joyce Werwie Perry

 

 

  Summer 2006
Boundaries



Boundaries
August 4th - September 15th 2006

Selected interpretations of a personal, emotional,
physical, political or geographical nature -
exploring the boundaries within and around us

Opening Reception: Friday, August 4, 2006 6 - 9pm
Runs thru: Friday, September 15, 2006

Show features all mediums including poetry by over 25 local artists. Also included, anonymous submissions of therapeutic art relating to the subject

Artists Submitting:

M Stretavsky, A Sninsky, T Perpich, J Werwie Perry, L Marin, J Ogren, K Zimbicki,
J Rettinger, C Begley, M Shipe, C Beregi, S Koleman, C Rangos , J Thomas, J Ogren, T Perpich, L Breen, D Petrelli, J Sendek, B Elias, R Perry, D DeGroat, G Essenberg, D Kash, B Ireland, S Liebowitz, P Dvorak

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Other Gallery Attractions - Summer 2006

Joyce Werwie Perry at the Butler Institute of American Art's 70th National Midyear Exhibition:

 With her painting "Midnight Feeding" selected by juror,Peter Plagens, Newsweek Art Critic.

The Exhibition runs through August 06.



Joyce Werwie Perry
with her painting "Midnight Feeding"

 

 

November - December 2005
All About Metal

Summer 2005
Chrysalis: An Artistic Awakening
 

August 5th 2005 - September 3rd 2005

Local painters under the direction of Joyce Werwie Perry make their gallery debut

Breen - Dvorak - Letorneau
Brown - Eddy - Manifesto
Cirelli - Fletcher - Mullins
Cook, B. - Harkins - Petrelli
Cook, M. - Hribar - Vajentic
DeMarco - Volitich

Opening reception Friday, August 5th 2005


SUMMER MENAGERIE II
June 1 - July 31

An ecclectic collection of art with a summer theme by local artists:

Adrienne Heinrich
Terri Perpich
Ken Beer
Luise Davis
Jane Ogren
Judy Mattei
Pat Varriano
Nancy Kountz
Marjorie Shipe
Claire Hardy
Cheryl Kelley
Jan Jay
Joyce Werwie Perry

 

November 2004

  HOLIDAY GIFT GALLERY
  Over 35 Local Artists

OPENING RECEPTION

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19
  6pm - 9pm

  

  

 
- paintings - pottery - beaded jewelry - photography - handmade dolls - woven vessels - fabric art - wood turnings - sculpture - etchings - glass - confections

SILENT AUCTION
DRAWING
50% OFF SELECTED REPRODUCTIONS
LIVE HOLIDAY MUSIC
WASSAIL, EGGNOG, HOLIDAY GOODIES

Gallery will also be open for the
CRAFTON XMAS HOUSE TOUR
Sunday, December 5    noon - 5pm

SHOW RUNS THRU JANUARY 15
 

Artists participating:
 

Werwie Perry    Kearns         Rangos   Mattei   
Varriano           Kelley          Skoko      Florence
Norulak            Elias            Ogren      Korzcynski
Bothe              Capolupo      Boyle       Kash
Gilfillan            Stocker        Miller        Palamara
Benincasa       Wagle          Donnelly   Graham
Farbacher        Habets         Smith       Steadman
Krohner           Coles           Marze        Beattie           Kazmarski    Massucci     Mastrean
 

December 2004

A Collection of Works by Joyce Werwie Perry is on display at
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh for the month of December, 2004

Call for information
"The work in this exhibit as a whole represents the transition from what is purely representational to the addition of abstraction within the paintings.  The conflict or struggle I am working through doesn't eliminate the portayal of the human condition-something that needs to remain constant in my work.  Expression and emotion continues to be vital.  These paintings are the stepping stones to an unknown place
that I am looking forward to discovering."  
 

October 2004

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"From the Forest and the Trees"

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"From the Forest and the Trees"

Edric Florence And Thomas J. Norulak

Opening Reception:      Friday, October 1, 2004   6pm - 9pm
Show runs thru:           Saturday, November 13, 2004

Each artist fascinated by the power of nature comes together in his unique way in this collaboration.
Edric Florence, a Bethel Park resident and experienced wood turner, is influenced by his Asian-Polynesian background and reflects this culture in his beautiful and extremely elegant works of art created from unfinished castoffs destined for firewood.  Pieces include hollow vessels, lidded containers and sleek bowls of various exotic and domestic woods - spalted maple, walnut, banksia, African blackwood, etc.   Edric sells his pieces internationally.


Thomas J. Norulak (Forest Hills), a printmaker and member of The Print Group, engages the viewer with his observations of his journeys through area forests with etchings on handmade paper which include flowers, pine needles, hair, etc, found in his travels.  His artistic process of portraying the natural world in a medium both technical and natural brings him to the "symbology" of art imitating nature imitating art.   Historical land markers are depicted quite often in his pieces.   Thomas show extensively in local and regional exhibits.
 

August 2004

Seek and Find Sculpture:

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"Flight" - Jim Rettinger
  sea pods, electrical connectors, metal


Jim Rettinger, Moon Twp artist
mixed media sculptures made from found objects

Opening Reception:  Friday, August 20, 2004   6-9pm
Show runs through:   Friday, September 17, 2004

Rettinger's work is constructed from found objects, both natural and manmade.

Selected chunks of driftwood, tree branches, bones and stones are used along  with manmande discards which are at a point where nature is claiming back and  re-appropriating them in the form of rust and decay. "Junkyard and railroad  sidings are museums without confusing nametags or curators."  Hand-built  ceramics are also some of the componests of his constructions. He challenges  the viewer to find his/her own meaning of growth, aging, decay or transformation.   More images of exhibition to follow.

 

     Sandy Kessler-Kaminsky, Michael Stephens and Pat Varriano come together for an exhibit all about metal - it's transformation and existence in our environment.

     Kessler-Kaminski paints Pittsburgh's bridges in acrylic - sometimes on metal.  She is well-known in Pittsburgh for her neighborhood murals. 
Stephens, from northern PA, is a self-taught silversmith who incorporates ancient stones, found objects and more recently microcircuits in his silver jewelry. His work was recently included in the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh's Annual Exhibit at The Andy Warhol Museum


     Pat Varriano, a watercolorist from the South Hills, paints rusted cast-offs usually found on old farm sites in Western PA. He has been featured in Watercolor Magazine and has won numerous awards here and out of state.
 

 

October 2005
Only Human

:
The Best and Worst of Humanity
October 1st - October 29th 2005

Artists participating:
Tina Williams Brewer
Dean Beattie
Marlene Boyle
Carolyn Coyle
Linda Breen
Kimberly Dodin
Lisa Knighten
Linda Fruhwald
Janese Hexon
Barb Isaak
Joe Isaak
Tom Ferraro
Donna Bogosto Kearns
Cheryl Kelley
Judy Mattei
Leda Miller
Marianne Marino
Keith Ewanco
Terri Perpich
Jane Ogren
David Obidzinski
Penny Mateer
April Perry
Renae Perry
Zachary Perry
Jim Rettinger
John Skoko
Cindy Shaffer
Kim Stocker
Michael Stephens
Lynn Mastrean
Susan Sparks
Lucienne Wald
Barry Winsand
Carolyn Wenning
Joyce Werwie Perry
Kathleen Zimbicki

Exhibit is free and open to the public