Rachel Perry (artist)
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Rachel Perry (born 1962, formerly Rachel Perry Welty) is an American artist.[1] She is known for conceptual works using drawing, photography, video, collage, sculpture and performance, which address “the fleeting nature of experience, the elusiveness of desire, and the persistence of objects in a throwaway culture.”[2] Art critic Jerry Saltz has written that her work "not only grappl[es] with consumerism but [she is] just about swallowed whole by it.”[3] Her work also considers themes of gender identity, narcissism, privacy and information overload.[4]
She has exhibited widely throughout the United States and internationally, including a solo exhibition at Yancey Richardson Gallery in 2015, about which art critic Roberta Smith wrote, “…obsessive delights await in this strange and beautiful show…”[5]
She lives and works in Gloucester, Massachusetts and Brooklyn, New York.