BERRISFORD BOOTHE (1961 - )
Places of Passion.

Fluid iridescent acrylic on paper, 2023. 165x165 mm; 6½x6½ inches. Signed, titled and dated in pencil lower margin.

Provenance: collection of the artist.

Berrisford Boothe has exhibited as a painter, digital artist, printmaker, photographer, and conceptual installation artist. He has exhibited with the June Kelly Gallery, New York, and the Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia. He has also exhibited in the UK, South America, and had a 2016 solo exhibition in Osaka, Japan. His artwork has been placed in numerous public collections including Lafayette College, The Philadelphia Convention Center, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Universidad de Costa Rica, The Kasser Foundation, The Allentown Art Museum and The University City Science Center, among others.

. As founding and principal curator for the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art from 2012 through 2020, Boothe acquired over 400 works of art in eight years. During that tenure, he curated nine museum exhibitions including the Portland Art Museum's major 2017 exhibition, Constructing Identity, Essential Presence at the Allentown Art Museum, As We See It at the African American Museum in Philadelphia, and assisted in producing and contributing to the exhibition catalog for the seminal 2019-20 Wadsworth Atheneum exhibition, Afrocosmologies: American Visions in Hartford, CT.

Berrisford Boothe has been a Professor of Art at Lehigh University for over 28 years. While there, he was a founding member of the Africana Studies Program and served as Interim Chair of the Department of Art Architecture and Design. He resides in Easton, PA where he continues his studio practice at the Karl Stirner Arts Building. Bio courtesy of the artist's website.

Consigned to support the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation.