Fall 2020 Art Show
September - November
Through the Eyes of the Beholder, a virtual art exhibit in collaboration between Malissa Perry and Christen Mattix at the Jansen Art Center in Lynden, WA, is available to view at the Jansen Art Center, or by clicking here.
The WISE Art Gallery
16040 Christensen Road, Suite 212
Tukwila, WA 98188
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MALISSA PERRY ART
GET TO KNOW MALISSA
Malissa Perry is a self-taught artist, living and working in Bellingham, WA. With a complex dual diagnosis of autism and Down syndrome, she is almost completely nonverbal, using sign language minimally and dependent on 24-hour care. She began painting on canvas when her beloved caregiver, Nancy Daugherty, gifted her with a blank canvas in Spring of 2015. Since then, she has had several art shows. Many of her original paintings are now in private collections. Malissa uses art as a mode of expression, making her voice heard with vibrant colors and a strong use of composition and mixed media.
RESUME
September 3, 2020
Virtual and In Person
Through the Eyes of the Beholder
Jansen Art Center, Lynden, WA
2019
Portals
The Wise Art Gallery, Tukwila, WA
2019
Perspectives
Makeshift Gallery, Bellingham, WA
2019
Winter Juried Art Show
Jansen Art Center, Lynden, WA
2018
Spring Juried Exhibit
Jansen Art Center, Lynden, WA
2017
Objectification 10
Smith and Vallee Gallery, Edison, WA
2016
Search for Meaning
Seattle University, Seattle, WA
2016
The Malissa Perry Project: Love Loves to Love
Makeshift Art Gallery, Bellingham, WA
2015
The Malissa Perry Project: Healing Through Art
St. Joseph Medical Center, Bellingham, WA
PUBLICATIONS
CASCADIA WEEKLY
December 2015
"She opens up fun, refreshing possibilities that are avant garde in their bold defiance of fashion norms.”
NORTHWEST CATHOLIC
January - February 2016
"Malissa is nonverbal, but her paintings give expression to a rich, enigmatic inner life. She creates dense, atmospheric layers of marker, glitter and paint that suggest nebulae, tidal pools or glittering geodes. The surfaces of her paintings incorporate found objects like shoelaces, beads and balloons culled from her daily life."
Migration of the Butterflies
