Visiting Artist Lecture | Serena Perrone

The Lamar Dodd School of Art Printmaking and Book Arts area and the Printmaking Student’s Association present a lecture by visiting artist Serena Perrone.

Perrone is an assistant professor of printmaking at Georgia State University. Her multi-disciplinary work references vernacular storytelling through layered pieces exploring the problems of nostalgia and the poetics and perils of place. The role of invention and the insistence on an authentic vision concern her as she seeks to recognize and experience multiple genuine realities simultaneously.  Foregrounding the Sicilian landscape, she focuses on narratives that explore duality, ambivalence, tension and contradiction stemming from the complex lived experience of being between cultures. Theatrical settings culled from personally significant landscapes become backdrops for the contrasting and confusing instances of reflexive and restorative nostalgia, and often reference literature, poetry, pre-cinema and the ‘almost seen’. The work favors multi-layered, mediated scenes that invite both furtive and explicit looking, whose mystery lies in the obfuscation of location, time and meaning, relying heavily on process, workmanship, and decoration.

Artist Bio

Serena Perrone holds an M.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and is currently an assistant professor of printmaking at Georgia State University. Recent solo exhibitions include Spring/Break Art Fair in New York, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, and the Print Center in Philadelphia. Her work is collected by numerous institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and Philadelphia Museum of Art. She is the 2022 recipient of the Idea Capital Antinori Visual Artist Grant for her ongoing project “Smarrimento/Apparizione”, the Welch Faculty Research Exchange Grant from Georgia State University, a Pollock-Krasner Grant, and was a Pew Fellowship nominee. A dual-citizen, she resides between Atlanta and Italy, where she maintains her primary studio practice and is the Founder and Director of Officina Stamperia del Notaio, an international artists’ residency program in Sicily. She is represented by Cade Tompkins Projects in Providence, Rhode Island.