Christian Perkins Art
Acrylics, mixed medium, Collage, Found objects
Winter Street Studios
Studio C140
christian_perkins1@hotmail.com
A native of New Orleans, Louisiana, Christian Perkins is a professional exhibiting artist and an educator. Perkins is certified as both a Generalist teacher for grades 4-8 and an Art teacher for EC-12. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Advertising Art from Prairie View A&M University, and attended graduate studies at the University of Houston, Clear Lake.
Perkins’ artwork has been shown in juried group exhibitions at The Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, The Community Arts Collective, Houston City Hall, Winter Street Studios Art on the Avenue Show, The Museum of Fine Arts Annual Citywide Exhibit, Prospect 4 Exhibit in New Orleans, Louisiana, solo shows at Hardy & Nance Studios and The University Museum at Texas Southern.
My current works correlate personal and societal aspirations of self-actualization with human dynamism. Most intriguing to me are multi-tiered levels of mentality that humans revisit through transgressions; depending upon a person's hierarchy of needs. It's an ongoing process; trying to understand the internal and external driving forces that push or pull us in directions that inevitably shape what we will become. It is this human endeavor that layers of acrylic, mixed media, collage assemblages, text, iconography and found objects, respectfully attempts to depict– through works ranging from introspective narratives to esoteric commentaries.
