Fruits of the Spirit
Bockley Gallery is pleased to announce Grace Rosario Perkins’ (Diné/Akimel O’odham) debut solo exhibition with the gallery and in the Midwest. Fruits of the Spirit features Perkins’ signature gestural, densely layered, abstract paintings that exude the methods and intentions of their becoming: the artist’s intuitive conjuring of ritual and family – generations past, present, and future – to transmute hope, grief, and expansive feeling. Interested in disassembling her personal narrative through layering words, objects, colors and signs, she has referred to her practice as pictorial storytelling and scenographic placemaking. Through maximal surfaces that carry additive and subtractive negotiations, Perkins refuses legible visual narratives. Of late, she conceptually and physically folds medicinal plant studies into her existing practice with spray paint, acrylic, and diaristic ephemera.
Opening-Day Events
May 8, 2025
Artist Talk, 5:30–6:00 pm
Reception, 6:00–7:30 pm
Photo by Rik Sferra
Photo by Rik Sferra
Photo by Rik Sferra
Photo by Rik Sferra
and I Have Seen (Illuminations), 2023
acrylic, spray paint, paper, and transparencies on canvas
77 x 54 inches
acrylic, spraypaint, dandelions, plaster, plastic bag, and newsprint on canvas
82.5 x 64.5 inches
acrylic, spray paint, and barrel cactus flower essence on canvas
65.25 x 54.25 inches
acrylic, spray paint, horsehair, fake eyelashes, paper, rose petals, mirror, datura seeds, sand, bubble packaging, sharpie, cut canvas, and adhesive on canvas
66.25 x 67 inches
acrylic, spray paint, enamel, mother of pearl, turquoise, black jet, and sterling silver on canvas
67 x 70 inches
acrylic, spray paint, enamel, adhesive sticker, and sand on linen
49 x 30 inches
acrylic, spray paint, sand, and paper on canvas
78 x 54 inches