A 35+ year exploration of color across mediums

Artist Danny Perkins hand-finishing a large oil on birch panel work with resin in his cinder-block studio, with completed 2025 color field paintings mounted on the wall behind him.

Danny Perkins has been working with the dichotomies of color and form for more than 35 years, first as an internationally renowned glass artist working in three-dimensions and now as a painter. Perkin’s paintings have a conversation with the tradition of Abstract Expressionist color field work, which believes that in the absence of suggested or referential forms the expressive power of color can be more fully understood. Whether we are consciously aware of it or not, color holds emotions, memories, cultural significance and experiential associations. In working with color as his primary subject, Perkins hopes that his paintings compel the viewer to journey into their own internal, emotional selves. In a world that often feel chaotic, he is drawn to creating a sense of order, seen through the use of a horizon line, which also gives the viewer an accessible entry into the work. Important to Perkins in his abstractions is communicating drama, action and hope, always hope. 

Danny was born in Frankfurt , Germany, raised Oklahoma, in an orphanage on the Cherokee nation. As an adult lived in the Bay area. He then moved to Washington state where he was a professional artist showing nationally and internationally, and is in museum collections throughout. He now lives in Tucson, Arizona.


    • Anne Gould- Hauberg, Seattle, WA

    • Asian Art Museum, Seattle, WA

    • Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, OR

    • Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA

    • Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA

    • Coming Museum of Glass, Corning, NY

    • Elton John, Atlanta, GA 

    • George Saxe, Palo Alto, CA

    • Jack Benaroya, Seattle, WA

    • Jerry Rose, Atherton, CA 

    • Judy Cornfield, Hollywood, FL 

    • MacAllen International Museum, McAllen, TX

    • Microsoft Corporation, Seattle, WA 

    • National Museum of American Art, Renwick Gallery (Smithsonian), Washington DC

    • Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA

    • Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

    • Price Waterhouse, Phoenix, AZ

    • Taco Bell Corporation, Irvine, CA

    • Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL

    • Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England

    • Wells Fargo Headquarters, Denver, CO

    • The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL

    • 2026 Assembly Art Fair, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA

    • 2025 Pidgin Palace. Tucson, AZ

    • 2024 Patricia Rovzar Gallery. Seattle, WA

    • 2022 Pidgin Palace. Tucson, AZ

    • 2016 R. Duane Reed Gallery. St. Louis, MO

    • 2011 William Traver Gallery. Seattle, WA

    • 2008 Habatat Gallery. Boca Raton, FL

    • 2007 R. Duane Reed Gallery. St. Louis, MO

    • 2006 William Traver Gallery. Seattle, WA

    • Habatat Gallery. Boca Raton, FL

    • 2005 Hawk Gallery. Columbus, OH

    • Pop Star, Butters Gallery. Portland, OR

    • Duane Reed Gallery. New York, NY

    • 2004 Habatat Gallery. Chicago, IL

    • Palm Beach Contemporary Art Fair, Habatat Gallery. Palm Beach, FL 

    • 2003 Duane Reed Gallery.  St. Louis, MO

    • William Traver Gallery. Tacoma, WA

    • 2002      Hawk Gallery. Columbus, OH

    • Extravaganza, Heller Gallery. New York, NY

    • Habatat Gallery. Chicago, IL

    • 2001      Breath, William Traver Gallery. Seattle, WA

    • Passion and Beasts, Duane Reed Gallery. Chicago, IL

    • Habatat Gallery. Miami, FL

    • Highline Gallery. Aspen, CO

    • 2000      Elders, Butters Gallery. Portland, OR

    • Transitions, Heller Gallery. New York. NY

    • Stone Age, William Traver Gallery. Seattle, WA

    • Riley Hawk Gallery. Columbus, OH

    • 1999     Duane Reed Gallery. Chicago, IL

    • Habatat Gallery. Miami, FL

    • 1998      Marx Saunders Gallery. Chicago, IL

    • Heller Gallery. New York. NY

    • 1998 Mirco Arts, Butters Gallery. Portland, OR

    • Grand Central Gallery. Tampa, FL

    • Highline Gallery. Aspen, CO

    • 1997     Jackie 0, William Traver Gallery. Seattle, WA

    • Habatat Gallery. Aspen, CO

    • Butters Gallery. Portland, OR

    • 1996     Artland 200 miles, William Traver Gallery. Seattle, WA

    • Habatat Gallery, Miami, FL

    • Sandy Carson Gallery. Denver, CO

    • 1995    Habatat Gallery. Pontiac, Ml

    • Riley Hawk Gallery. Cleveland, OH

    • New Work, Heller Gallery. New York, NY

    • 2005 Review: Glass Magazine, Spring 

    • 2004 Profiled Article: The Artisan Northwest, Debra Jensen

    • Book: Contemporary International Glass, Jennifer Hawkins Opie

    • 2003 Review: The Columbus Dispatch, Jacqueline Hill

    • 1996  Publication: American Craft, "Danny Perkins”, Matthew Kangas, Feb/ March

    • 1994   Habatat Glass, "State of the Art", Habatat Gallery

    • 1992   Book: Out of the Fire, Bonnie Miller

    • 1990 Review: New York Times, December SO

    • 1989 Book: Contemporary Glass, Susanne K. Franz

    • 1986  Publication: Works, Habatat Gallery

    • Book: 50's Style Now and Then, Richard Horn

    • 1985   Publication: INSIGHT: A Collectors Guide to Contemporary American Glass, Habatat Gallery

    • 2018 Run Coyote Run, Car Coordinator, Art Department: Fabricator and Swing crew

    • 2018 When the Curtain Falls, Car Coordinator, Art Department: Fabricator and Swing crew

    • 2017 Love by Drowning, Car Coordinator, Art Department: Fabricator and Swing crew

    • 2016 Run Coyote Run, Car Coordinator, Art Department: Fabricator and Swing crew

Curriculum Vitae

DOWNLOAD
DOWNLOAD

Inquiries

“I was showing the chaos, and then I was showing my struggle to control the chaos. The horizon is control. “

View the Work