About

Using tiny paper shards of found colors and textures carefully cut from magazines, Molly Perrault creates paintings without paint. With a focus on rendering landscapes, she enjoys slowly reconstructing the places that have been a source of inspiration, adventure, and comfort. Perrault views her process as cyclical: nature is used to produce the paper in which the magazines are printed, and she assumes her creative role in both the act of destruction and reconstruction. Perrault sees her detail-oriented method as a path to subvert the artificial colors, extravagance, and careful page layouts of mainstream print media by returning its contents to a state of nature.

Molly Perrault graduated summa cum laude from Louisiana State University, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts. After spending most of her upbringing in South Louisiana, Perrault moved to Colorado to experience the West where she enjoys long road trips, beautiful & stimulating hikes, and being part of a unique mountain-town community. She debuted her first solo exhibition Regeneration in June 2018 at the Telluride Arts HQ Gallery in Telluride, CO. She has also displayed her work at MiXX Projects + Atelier in Telluride, CO. Currently, she is represented at Slate Gray Gallery in Telluride, CO where her work is on display. In August 2019, Perrault was awarded Best in Show at the Annual Ouray County Arts Association Fine Art Show in Ouray, CO. In February 2019, she was awarded 1st Place in Ah Haa School for the Arts’ Annual Juried Exhibition, 12x12.

View more of her work on Instagram @molly.perrault.art

ADDITIONAL PRESS:

• “New exhibitions feature local artists”, The Watch, March 4, 2020

• “Locals raise support for Australian wildfires relief”, Telluride Daily Planet, January 23, 2020

• Featured Artist, telluridearts.org, June 2018