May 3 - June 5, 2025
From Archway Gallery:
“Archway Gallery proudly presents Gone Awry, featuring captivating new works by donna e perkins, on view from May 3 – June 5, 2025. Join us for the opening reception on Saturday, May 3, from 5 – 8 p.m., where guests can meet the artist and enjoy an Artist Talk at 6:30 p.m.
donna e perkins has always sought to create art that sparks meaningful conversations and inspires a kinder world. Her work naturally reflects her observations of life’s complexities—its beauty, its unpredictability, and the resilience of the human spirit.
Over the past year, perkins embraced unexpected changes in both her personal journey and artistic process. While she initially envisioned a series of large-scale figurative oil paintings, physical challenges led her to explore a different path. Unable to stand at her easel for long periods, she turned to watercolor and pen drawings, allowing spontaneity to guide her hand. What emerged was a striking collection of non-objective works—an evolution she hadn’t planned, but one that speaks to the power of adaptation and artistic transformation.
Gone Awry is a testament to creativity’s ability to thrive in the face of change, revealing beauty in the unexpected.
The oil paintings in this exhibition are based on studies made in Archway Gallery’s figure drawing sessions. Using water-soluble graphite on canvas, perkins quickly captures lines that later, in her studio, she smears and fixes with matte medium. These lines serve as the bones of her abstract oil paintings.
The watercolor drawings are portable and allow perkins to work in stolen minutes. She lays down watercolor paint and allows it to run and bleed. Then she traces the fractal lines created by the drying watercolor and compulsively adds many more lines.
After having lived in West Texas, South Texas, and the Gulf Coast, perkins considers Houston home. She has been a member of Archway Gallery for over 15 years, and this is her 9th Featured Artist exhibition. “
Reception: May 3, 2025 | 5–8 pm
2305-A Dunlavy
Houston, 77006 TX
(713) 522-2409
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