Exhibitions

BENNARD PERLMAN: A PAINTING SURVEY, 1946-2008

July 31 – October 3, 2009

The Museum will host a solo exhibition of the celebrated painter Bennard Perlman, a native Baltimorean.  Formally trained, Perlman received his BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University and an MA from the University of Pittsburgh.  For 32 years, Perlman served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Fine and Applied Arts at the Community College of Baltimore, where he taught drawing, painting, printmaking and art history.  He also taught classes at Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Goucher College, Loyola College, Towson University and Oxford University in London.

As an artist, Perlman has had solo exhibitions at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), I.F.A. Galleries and has exhibited at the Riverside Art Museum, Kennedy Galleries in New York, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Albright-Knox Museum in Buffalo and numerous other prestigious venues.  Perlman’s work can be found in the permanent collections of the Academy Art Museum, the Library of Congress, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Arizona.

Through the inclusion of 12 paintings, spanning more than 60 years, viewers can enjoy the evolution of his style through depictions of still-lifes, harbor scenes and landscapes.

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