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About Me

See some of my life's work at: www.serenaperrone.30art.com and on Cade Tompkins Editions: www.cadetompkins.com My work is also included in the Permanent Collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC, and the RISD Museum's permanent collection.I'm a pretty open and eclectic person, I've traveled most of Europe and the US and am pretty independent. I'm very close with my family so I'm lucky in that respsect. Despise bullshit or useless protocol. Small and Italian-American! I speak Italian and French, understand a good amount of Spanish, and am picking up Tawianese here and there (I know how to say "I'm Hungry" which is very important to know). Sweet and loving person with a good sense of humor even though I can't tell jokes, but others seem to enjoy that. Meeting new people is always good, and I am always looking forward to new experiences. Pretty laid back most of the time and like to socialize, although I can also be a loner - I like my alone time too. As a creative person, I need that time to regenerate. I go places by myself and I like to observe life. I get down when the world seems like it isn't ever going to head in the right direction. I get overwhelmed sometimes. I am full of contradictions. I love to laugh, love blood moons, tornadic weather, and eating saltine crackers in the snow. They're better that way.

I am a painter and a printmaker working primarily in oils, intaglio, and woodcut. Originally from St. Louis, I moved to Rhode Island for Grad School where I just finished my MFA in Printmaking at Rhode Island School of Design. I am working on becoming involved with the Philly scene now that I'm more settled after my move, and am hoping to meet more local artists, artisans, writers, and musicians, as well as folks I lost track of over the years.

www.serenaperrone.30art.com.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Well I just finished my MFA at Rhode Island School of Design. After living there for 2 years I relocated to Chinatown in Philly. So far so good. I really love it here.I'd like to meet anyone, as long as you are kind and intelligent and have a good sense of humor. Sincerity and tenderness combined with sarcasm and wit is a winning combination in my eyes. I don't like people who are pretentious or take themselves or anything too seriously. Please have some humility. If you can quote the Princess Bride, and then talk about Oliver Sacks, have read every Haruki Murakami book ever written, make pilgrimmages to see the work of Jacopo Pontormo, and can name that jazz tune that's playing on KKJZ, I'll be your friend forever. Be honest and yourself and we'll probably get along.

oh and mr. winkle.

My Blog

Zia Peppina is gone.

Today I lost my great-aunt Josephine "Peppina", in Sicily. She was my grandmother's sister, and more of a grandmother to me than nonna ever was. She had a killer sense of humor, and the childhood ph...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:33:00 GMT

Brilliant News: THE WHITNEY

Brilliant News:I just got the call from Cade Tompkins telling me that David Kiehl, Curator of Prints at the Whitney Museum of American Art, has presented my woodcut "A Day in November: Impending Loss"...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:27:00 GMT

Twenty-Seven in 2007

Well I just got to spend New Year's with some good friends who I haven't seen in at least a year. Went to Matt and Erin's new place in Soulard, its awesome, and I was so happy to see everyone- Ania i...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 01:16:00 GMT

Baby Steps

The baby steps toward reaching my goals are getting swifter, stronger, and it is really exciting to see how each little moment of progress opens up into something new, something better. Every little ...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 22:17:00 GMT

The Peculiar Disappearance of a City

I just got out of bed to get a glass of water from the kitchen and as I passed through the livingroom, I noticed it seemed remarkably dark, for my apartment right in center city Philadelphia, with the...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:54:00 GMT

Editions/Artists' Book Fair - NYC

Hello everyone;Good news to tell you. I will be one of the exhibited artists this year at the Editions/Artists' Book Fair in Chelsea, NYC. For those of you in the NY area, perhaps I will run into yo...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:58:00 GMT

New American Paintings.New Apartment.New Job.New Piece...

Well here I am... I am finally settled into my place in Chinatown in Philly. I was living with Wayne for the first month and a half, and it was good- I actually completed a new 6 foot long woodcut wh...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:07:00 GMT

Fin: Recommence.

Well I graduated from graduate school today. Last night I went to a reception at the Woods-Gerry gallery where I learned that my 3rd piece, "Tristessa: Reappearance of the Vanished Filicudi" that has...
Posted by on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 18:15:00 GMT

Complete Destruction

This is day 12 that we have been locked out of our studios due to the Mercury bullshit. Although on Monday, Jay Coogan assured us that the levels of mercury never exceeded that which are permissable ...
Posted by on Fri, 26 May 2006 22:45:00 GMT

Oh, oh, oh, I'm on Fire...

So here's the run down of the DRAMA.... All of our pieces were due at the museum on Friday the 12th. I turned my final piece in on the 11th. Sunday the 14th a mysterious thing happened in Fletcher, ...
Posted by on Mon, 22 May 2006 22:07:00 GMT