Fine art with Alabama native Perry Austin

With roots in rural Alabama, Perry Austin has a passion for the landscape both as a painter and a fisherman. Beginning art at the age of 13. Perry began formal training in the aerospace industry as a technical illustrator and worked for companies from California to Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. After graduating from Auburn University Perry eventually became Vice President of Marketing and Sales for RSG, Inc. an outstanding international process equipment company. During this period fine art was a passionate hobby and he developed representation at several art galleries. In 1998, Perry along with his three brothers were published in SouthWest Art and soon afterward Perry began the full time pursuit of fine art. Member of the American Impressionist Society, and Oil Painters of America. Perry happily resides and paints in the Alabama hills at Box Turtle Farm with his wife, Carol.

Perry will be the featured artist in the upcoming "From Here to Yonder", Landscapes in America at the Beverly McNeil Gallery in Birmingham on October 5, 2017. (Beverly McNeil Gallery)

Upcoming workshops with Perry Austin will be "Composition and Value" at The Palms Conference Center in Panama City Beach Florida November 15-17, 2017, and "Painting the Landscape in Oils" at Tallapoosa School of Art at beautiful Lake Martin, Alabama November 28-29, 20017.  (www.beachartgroup.com) (Tallapoosa Workshops)

(Perry Austin YouTube)
Video presented by Walls Gallery that features the song written and performed by Sylacauga's own Rick Haynes.

Visit Perry Austin's website: (Perry Austin Fine Art)

1996 Art Expo New York, juried acceptance, New York, NY
1997 Accepted into the top 200 “Arts for the Parks Foundation”
1998 Southwest Art, March Issue “Family Connections”
1998 “The Artist Selects Exhibit,” (Alabama’s #1 Artist) Isabel A. Comer
Museum
1998 Indulge, Vol. 5 Issue 4, December issue “Art in Review”
2001 Artist in Residence, six weeks, Sara Carlisle residence, Tahilla, Ireland
2002 Southern Anglers’ Journal,” Spring Issue.
2002 Artist Selector for the Comer Foundation’s Artist Selects Exhibit
2003 Southern Anglers’ Journal,” Fall Issue.
2003 Granted membership into “Plein Air Painters of the Southeast”
2004 University of North Carolina commission for permanent collection
2004 Art Expo New York, Exhibitor
2004 Airlie Gardens Invitational. One of 13 invited across the nation
2004 PAP-SE exhibit Anderson Fine Art, St. Simons Isle, GA
2004 PAP-SE exhibit, Quinlan Visual Arts Center
2004 Thunderbird Foundation, Maynard Dixon Ranch, Mt. Carmel,
UT, Invited artist
2004 La Quinta Arts Festival, La Quinta, CA, Invited Artist
2005 Airlie Gardens Invitational. One of 13 invited across the nation
2005 PAP-SE exhibit Brazier Fine Art, Richmond, VA
2006 “American Art Collector,” February Issue
2007 "American Art Collector," October Issue
2007 One of 300 accepted into The National Small Works Exhibit
2008 Public TV documentary Wilmington, NC
2008 Invited to Paint Wilmington
2009 PAP-SE instructor @ Leatherwood, NC.
2009 Invited to Paint Wilmington
2010 Callaway Plein Air Event
2010 Invited to Paint Wilmington
2011 Energen Art Competition
2011 Callaway Plein Air, 2nd place quick draw
2011 Newnan Center for the Arts, Demo and workshop
2011 Invited to Paint Wilmington
2012 Callaway Plein Air, 1st Place

Perry Austin is in several galleries across Alabama and the Southeast:

Beverly McNeil Gallery
605 28th Street South
Birmingham,, AL 35233
205-328-1761

Germanton Art Gallery
3530 NC 8 and Hwy 65
Germanton,, North Carolina 27019
336-969-6121

Perry Austin Studio (256) 249-9335
By appointment only
Alabama

Walls Gallery
300 West Main St. (at "The Greenbrier")
White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia 24986

Chirpwood Gallery
405 South 10th ST
Opelika, AL 36801

Stonehenge Fine Art Gallery
1041 East Fairview Ave
Montgomery, AL 36106
334-262-8256

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