Michael Andrew Perry b. 1970 Dallas, Texas. BFA University of North Texas 1998. Growing up in the piney woods of East Texas, the southern landscape has always resonated with my southern Celtic DNA. I seek to cultivate landscapes that evoke an atmospheric narrative of dreamlike timeworn nostalgia through a mise en scene of thin translucent acrylic washes. By sharp contrast I grew up near the internationally renowned museums of the Dallas Forth Worth metroplex, where I was exposed to the 20th century modernism and sublime mark making of the likes of Helen Frankenthaler, Mark Rothko, and Vernon Fisher, who was my instructor for two semesters at North Texas. My abstract work is simply an exploration of ethereal shape and form, where again, tranquility is my non pretentious goal.