The Story …
When art meets it’s creator!
Donald E. Perry was born and raised in Zebulon, North Carolina. He began playing organized sports at the age of six and began group art classes at the age of seven including drawing and oil painting. He attributes those art classes to learning the basic art skills of a fine artist and attributes sports training as the key to his artistic work ethics. Donald continued to focus on the fundamentals of fine art throughout his formative years, while playing sports like that was his purpose in life. Upon the completion of high school, he went on to play college baseball and study fine art, graphic design, photography, illustration and creative writing, while earning his Bachelor of Science in Visual Communications.
After completing his degree, Donald would go on to become an award-winning Artist, Graphic Designer, Photographer, Art Director, Creative Director, Project Director and more, while creating his original artwork in the background. Donald built a solid history of directing, organizing and producing revenue-generating projects from conception through launch. He began his journey at IBM and Glaxo as an intern, which lead him to be a Graphic Designer for a Flexo Printing & Packaging Company based out of New York. Donald also worked for a Travel Agency, Record Label and Real Estate Company before moving on to work for an Off-Set Printing Company in Wilmington, NC. Next, he entered the Publishing and Advertising Industry at Carteret Publishing, Knight-Ridder and McClatchy. These experiences and others are what led him into contracting and consulting in 2006.
The paintings and drawings Donald hangs and posts online are only part of the narrative. As an artist, he works hard to develop art releasing the truth inside a toxic world of lies which transforms reality in order to give his paintings a voice. Donald developed his techniques specifically to capture and emphasize the flowing creativity inside a non-traditional approach to composition. The evolution of his art is created by analyzing and observing life, death, positives, negatives and balance. He makes every attempt to speak to himself and others about the truth inside every piece of art he creates. As you will see, it’s not a beautiful still life or landscape, “it’s his truth” and what has turned into a portal of reflections of life in these times of chaos and change. His influences are so vast he said, “life is the only influence you really need”.
Donald published 14 issues of 3DotMag.com a creative lifestyle print and online magazine between 2012-2015 . He also published a 204 page black and white 3-year anniversary edition. A collection of three years on the road with 3DotMag.com featuring modern art, music, style and other original works of art. Donald launched this project to explore unique artistic creations that push the boundaries of the establishment in order to evoke debate in the art world and promote art that questions the mind, while helping the viewer to identify with the lifestyle and artist within.
In 2015, Donald published an art book of 300+ drawings,“The Positives Inside Negative Expression” which was featured on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. For the past 15+ years, he has been focused on creating new art, while still working on creative and design projects worthy. Since 2019, Donald published his private virtual galleries to the public. First was Transforming Reality, which was an exhibition of works created on the cell phone while waiting on the world to respect others time as much as their own! Next was The Positives Inside Negative Expression. This collection of artwork is from Donald’s book titled The Positives Inside Negative Expression. The artist is our future and the art is the future of the human race. Then there was the History of the Worlds series. Inside this collection you see some of the past, present and future. As Donald completed part one of this series, the past seemed to reflect off the walls of the present as the future shadows of the human race disappear. Next, was Disguised Signals virtual exhibition, a collection of artwork created while meditating between the signals created, crossed and disrupted by the …
As Donald completed the 10-year anniversary edition of 3dotmag.com in 2022, he decided it’s too much for this time in history, so he will be burying this edition with the artwork for the next civilization to figure out what was happening in the past or maybe it’s the future I visualized 25 years ago, which looked backwards and further away in the rear view mirror than thought. In 2022, Donald also released his new book, Delete Me. Only collectors who purchased his original artwork were gifted this book. The public version was just released into the wild, I meant public on September 22, 2024. The full story is coming soon and it’s going to turn the world upside down and all around …
Want to know what’s next, pay attention to the guy behind the curtain, hahaaa. Donald currently lives and works in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. If you would like to discuss previewing private online galleries, purchase original artwork or creative solutions, please contact Donald by email at: [email protected] or follow online at: https://instagram.com/depart333.
My G.U.N. is God, Universe and Nature, which I learned from watching an interview with KRS One. This really helped me make more sense of all the non-sense.
ART EXHIBITIONS …
Art Raw Gallery, New York, NY, February 2009 | Shadows of a Deadman, Myrtle Beach, SC, February 2010 | Gallery Left, Myrtle Beach, SC, May 2011 | ART Walk 2011, Wilmington, NC, November 2011 | The Marion Royael Gallery, Beacon, NY, June 2011 | Fresh Brewed Coffee & Art, Myrtle Beach, SC, April 2012 | Franklin G. Burroughs – Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC, November 2012 | Art & Soul Gallery, Myrtle Beach, SC, November 2012 | 2001, Myrtle Beach, SC, January 2013 | House of Blues, Myrtle Beach, SC, June 2013 | Greg Normans Australian Grill, Myrtle Beach, SC, June 2013 | CoWork, Myrtle Beach, SC, February 2014 | The Dunes, Myrtle Beach, SC, March 2015 | Gifu Art Gallery, Surfside Beach, SC, September 2016 | Art Fields, Lake City, SC, April 2017 | Eclectic Art and Music Exhibition | Myrtle Beach, SC | July 2017 | William Miller Gallery, Myrtle Beach, SC, September 2017 | NYA Gallery, New York, NY, May 2019 | Charleston City Gallery, Charleston, SC, May 2019 | William Miller Gallery, Myrtle Beach, SC, August 2019 | The Dunes Club, Myrtle Beach, SC, November 2019 | Collectors Cafe, Myrtle Beach, SC, February 2020 | The Art Cut, Myrtle Beach, SC – May 2020 | Twitter Art Exhibit, Myrtle Beach, SC, September 2020 | Gifu Art Gallery, Surfside Beach, SC, September 2020 | Franklin G. Burroughs – Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC | February 2021 | Long Bay Symphony, Myrtle Beach, SC, May 2021 | A Virtual Gallery, Transforming Reality, April 2021 | Positives Inside Negative Expression, June 2021 | History of the Worlds, July 2021 | HTC HUB, Myrtle Beach, SC, February 2022 | A Virtual Gallery, Disquised Signals, March 2022 | Franklin G. Burroughs Simeon B. Chapin Art Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC, March 2023 …
DESIGN EXHIBITIONS …
DEPART, Art & Design, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, February 2006 – Present | 3DotMagazine, Publisher, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, January 2011 – September 2015 | TBSi Advertising, Creative Director, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, February 2006 – 2011 | The Brandon Agency, Art Director (Contract), Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, March 2006 – 2008 | McClatchy-Knight Ridder, Art Director of New Ventures, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, 2001 – 2006 | Knight-Ridder, Digital Production Manager, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, 2000 – 2001 | Beach Weekly News, General Manager, Carolina Beach, North Carolina, 1999-2000 | Carteret Publishing, Production Manager, Hampstead, North Carolina, 1999-2000 | Wilmington Printing Company, Senior Graphic Designer, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, 1994-1999 | New Horizons Media, Graphic Designer, Wilmington, North Carolina 1994 | Pres-Tige Label Corporation, Packaging Designer, Burgaw, New York, 1993-1994 | Glaxo, Business School Internship, Engineering Internship, Zebulon, North Carolina, 1991-1993