Artist Background

Joyce Werwie Perry – Award Winning Pittsburgh artist

Joyce Werwie Perry is the owner of le Poire, a fine art studio and gallery located near the West End of Pittsburgh where she paints and teaches classes/workshops.  Joyce has won numerous awards in regional and national exhibitions, including the prestigious Westmoreland Museum of American Art Exhibition Award by Curator, Barb Jones which precipitated her solo exhibit entitled REMNANTS at the museum in the fall of 2010. Other juror’s awards have been given by such people as Douglas Fogle, Curator of Contemporary Art at Carnegie Museum of Art, Virginia Mecklenberg, Curator at The Smithsonian, Washington, D.C and Faith Ringgold , renowned international artist and Caldicott Award winner among others.

Her work has been shown at Carnegie Museum of Art, Andy Warhol Museum, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Butler Museum of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, Avampato Discovery Museum in Charleston, West Virginia, The National Arts Club in New York City, Wichita Center for the Arts in Kansas, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art in Altoona, Duquesne University, Seton Hill University, Community College of Allegheny County, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and is represented by Gallerie Chiz in Shadyside.

Joyce is a member and former Vice President /Exhibitions Co-Chair of The Associated Artists of Pittsburgh and has over 150 works in private and public collections nationally. She also teaches her original knife technique at Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Touchstone Center for the Arts near Uniontown, PA. and holds workshops in the tri-state area.

RESUME

Education:
Associate in Science degree in Art – 1997
Community College of Allegheny County

Independent studies:
Stephen Hankin

Membership:

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh
- Former Vice President/Executive Board Member, Exhibitions Chair


www.aapgh.org

Pittsburgh Society of Artists
South Hills Art League, Vice-President and Show Chairperson-3 years

Solo Exhibitions:

Remnants Revisited
Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA  April,2011

Remnants

The Westmoreland Museum of American Art

Greensburg, PA October 2010 – January 2011

Selected Works, 2008
Sewickley Herald, Gallery 30, Sewickley, PA

Selected Works, December 2004, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh PA


“Recent Works” – Visual Arts Gallery, CCAC, Allegheny Campus September, 2002

“Pittsburgh Under the Knife” – Studio Z Gallery, Pittsburgh May, 2001

“People, Places and Things” -Studio Z Gallery, Pittsburgh December, 1997

Recent Group Participation:

     *  75th Mid Year Juried National Exhibition, 2011

Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

  • Biennial Exhibition 2008
    Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA

  • Art & Tech Exhibition, Pittsburgh, 2009

  • 13th Annual Exhibition 2008 – 09
    Southern Alleghenies Museum at
    Ligonier Valley Artists 2008 -09

  • In the Making: 250 Years/250 Artists 2008 -09
    Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh PA

  • 98th Annual Juried Exhibition
    Associated Artists of Pittsburgh 2008
    Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh PA

  • A Vision for Tomorrow Art Gala 2008
    Greater Latrobe Area School District, Latrobe PA

  • FigurePITTSBURGH 2008
    Sweetwater Center for the Arts 2008, Sewickley PA

  • Artists in Our Midst 2008
    Southern Alleghenies Museum, Altoona 2008

  • National Small Oil Exhibition 2008
    Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita Kansas

  • 112th Annual Open Exhibition 2008
    National Arts Club, New York City NY524 Oxford Blvd.
    2008 Juried Biennial Exhibition
    Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg PA

  • Celebrate Sewickley, 2008
    Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA

  • Persad – Art for Aids Auction, 2008
    Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Pittsburgh Through AAP Eyes (250th Anniversary of Pittsburgh), 2008
    Pittsburgh Center of the Arts, Shadyside, PA

  • 12th Annual Regional Juried Art Exhibition, 2007 – 2008
    Southwestern Pennsylvania Council for the Arts
    Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Ligonier Valley, PA

  • Art in the Garden, Washington Historical Society – September 2007
    Washington County Courthouse, Washington PA

  • The River, group exhibition with collaborative installation
    Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley, PA – August 2007

  • Reflections, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh – July, 2007
    707 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh PA

  • Art for Aids Auction, Carnegie Museum of Art – May, 2007

  • The Associated Artists of Pittsburgh 96th Annual Exhibition, October 2006
    Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
    Juror: Douglas Fogle, Curator of Contemporary Art, Carnegie Museum of Art

  • Second Juried Biennial at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, September 2006
    Juror: Virginia Mecklenburg, Curator -Smithsonian American Art Museum

  • The 70th Mid Year Exhibition,
    Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
    Juror: Peter Plagens, Newsweek Art Critic

  • Small Roars Exhibition – Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Penn Avenue, June 2006

  • Art for Aids Auction, Carnegie Museum of Art, May 2006

  • 2006 Westmoreland Museum of American Art’s Biennial

  • 2006 Art for Aids Auction
    Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

  • 2006 South Hills Art League Juried Annual Exhibition
    Vanadium Woods, Pittsburgh, PA

  • 2005 “Women in Art” Exhibition
    Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA

  • 2005 Appalachian Corridors Juried Exhibition at the Avampato Museum in Charleston, WV – “The Coal Miner’s Family (Pittsburgh -circa 1890)”

  • Assocated Artists of Pittsburgh Juried Exhibition -
    The Butler Institute of American Art, Salem, Ohio   July  2005

  • Pittsburgh Society of Artists Members Show
    Studio K – Lawrenceville, PA  May 2005

  • Group Exhibition – “The Feminine”
    Studio K – Lawrenceville, PA  April  2005

  • Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Juried Exhibition at The Hoyt Institute New Castle, PA  – 2005

  • Regina Gouger Miller Gallery – Carnegie Mellon University

  • Westmoreland Museum of American Art’s Biennial Exhibition – 2004

  • The Hoyt Institute’s Annual Exhibition – 2004

  • le Poire, “A Grand Opening and Celebration of Art”

  • Gallerie Chiz – Arts on Ellsworth, Shadyside, PA

  • Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, PA

  • Pittsburgh Society of Artists Annual 2000-2002

  • Three Rivers Arts Festival 2000, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Monroeville Arts Council Annual 2001, Monroeville, PA

  • Seton Hill College “Women in Art”, Greensburg, PA

  • Studio Z Gallery Anniversary Shows, Pittsburgh, PA

  • South Hills Art League Annuals – PPG Wintergarden

  • Art in the Round “W.O.M.E.N.,Inc.-Washington, PA

Recent Awards:

2009 Traditional Media Award, Art & Tech Exhibition
Pittsburgh, PA 2009

2008 Westmoreland Museum of American Art Exhibition
Award by Barb Jones, Curator

AAP 98th Annual Exhibition, Andy Warhol Museum
Pittsburgh, PA

2006 Maggie Milono Award by Douglas Fogle,
Curator of Comtemporary Art
AAP 96th Annual Exhibition, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

2006 Juror’s Award, Art for Aids Auction
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

2005 Juror’s Award, by Faith Ringgold
Appalachian Corridors Juried Exhibition, Avampato Museum, Charleston, WV

2005 First Prize, “Women in Art” Exhibition,
Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA

Juror’s Award -
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Juried Exhibition-
The Butler Institute of American Art – Salem, Ohio July 2005

Juror’s Award -
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh’s Juried Exhibition
Hoyt Institute – New Castle, PA 2005

Consol Energy Award –
South Hills Art League Annual Exhibition 2004
Washington Crown Center

Best of Show – South Hills Art League Annual 2002
PPG Wintergarden, Pittsburgh, PA

Best of Show – South Hills Art League Annual 2001
PPG Wintergarden, Pittsburgh, PA

First Place in Painting – Monroeville Annual 2001
CCAC Boyce Campus, Monroeville, PA

Grumbacher Award - South Hills Art League Annual 2000
PPG Wintergarden, Pittsburgh, PA

Award of Excellence-South Hills Art League Annual 1999
PPG Wintergarden, Pittsburgh, PA

Honorable Mention – Women in Art, Seton Hill College, Greensburg, PA