BIOGRAPHY
Hayley Perry is a painter and mixed media artist from Southeastern, Massachusetts. Hayley graduated with her BFA from Montserrat College of Art in 2006 and received her MFA degree from the College of Visual and Performing Arts at UMASS Dartmouth in 2011.
In addition to her fine art studies, Hayley is a certified art teacher and works full time at her fiber art business called Loop by Loop Studio, where she focuses on her contemporary rug hooking designs and projects. Hayley paints and operates her craft business from her art studio at the Cutler Mill Building in Warren, RI.
For more information on Hayley’s craft work, visit her website: www.loopbyloopstudio.com
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University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
New Bedford, MA, September 2009 – May 2011
Masters in Fine Arts with a Concentration in Painting
Bridgewater State College
Bridgewater, MA, January 2007 – December 2007
Accelerated Post-Baccalaureate Program for Initial Teaching Licensure
Montserrat College of Art
Beverly, MA, August 2002 – May 2006
Bachelor’s in Fine Arts with a Concentration in Painting
Selected Exhibition Experience:
Tensions: New Directions in Fiber Art, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI (Summer 2023)
Miniature Monumental, National Juried Exhibition, Bristol Art Museum, Bristol, RI (Winter 2023)
Interconnected: A Fiber Exhibition, Worcester State University, Worcester, MA (Winter 2023)
Threads that Bind, BWAC, Brooklyn, NY (Fall 2021)
State of Health, Appalachian Center for Craft, Smithville, TN (Summer 2021)
Fantastic Fibers, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY (Spring 2021)
Tuft, Group Projects PHL (Summer 2020)
New England Thread, Brookline Arts Center (Summer 2019)
ABOUT MY ARTWORK
Color is my sensory instrument to create a spatial experience for the viewer; I hope to direct emotional and bodily response by presenting the rich sensory surface of my mixed media collages. The tactile process of adding and subtracting the many layers of paper, drawing, and paint feels like I am constructing, deconstructing, molding, and unmolding the layers of the universe I am trying to convey. Making these universes is a powerful feeling.
Sensory perception is vital to understanding the Place within my artwork. The way humans perceive their environment is a multi-sensory event; people gather information from many different senses at once and then organize this data into an emotional or thoughtful response. I present the viewer with formal visual elements, such as color, light, and texture to reinforce this idea of how humans experience Place. These elements are not transformed to depict an image, rather, they are ordered and arranged to have an emotional and physical effect on the viewer.