Exhibits, Awards, Education

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019

Gala Opening, CabadaGray Gallery, Ventura, CA

2014

“All Atwitter” Architectural Foundation, Santa Barbara, CA

2010

“Peggy Ferris: Color | Line | Form” – Architectural Foundation, Santa Barbara

2009

“Peggy Ferris Designer Abstractions” – San Luis Obispo Art Center. Featuring hard-edge and gestural abstractions.             

2009 Arts Fund Salon Series, featured artist, Santa Barbara

2008

“When Designers Paint: Hard-Edge and Gestural Abstracts by Peggy Ferris” – Gallery on State, Santa Barbara

2007

“Metropolis: Mixed Media Abstracts on Yupo” ­­– Santa Barbara Architectural Foundation, Santa Barbara, CA

2006

“Foreign Language: Hard-Edge Paintings by Peggy Ferris” – Neuvie Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

2005

“Peggy Ferris: Recent Work” – US Bank, Malibu Colony, CA

“Arts for the Healing; Hard-Edge Paintings by Peggy Ferris” – Sansum Diabetes Research Center, Santa Barbara, CA

2004

“Energy: Hard-Edge Paintings by Peggy Ferris” – Chancellor Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018

“In Flow” Silo 118 Gallery, Santa Barbara

“The Last Show” Silo 118 Gallery, Santa Barbara

“Pop-up @ Paseo Nuevo, Santa Barbara

“Hundred Grand” Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara

2017

“Objects of Impossibility: Contemporary Abstraction, Sullivan Goss. Santa Barbara

“Abstractions: Two Women Artists”, GraySpace Gallery, Santa Barbara

“Synergies: The Abstract 10, Architectural Foundation, Santa Barbara

“Summer Salon”, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara

“Black and White (Mostly!)” Silo 118 Gallery, Santa Barbara

2016

“Abstractions: Two Women Artists”, GraySpace Gallery, Santa Barbara

“Then and Now”, the Arts Fund Gallery, Santa Barbara

“The Abstract 10, Michael Kate Interiors

“Black and White”, Indigo, Santa Barbara

Guest artist, 10West Gallery, Santa Barbara

“Hundred Grand”, Santa Barbara

2015

Abstract 10, Michael Kate Interiors

“Hundred Grand”, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara

“Driven to Abstraction” Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara

2014

“Hundred Grand”, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara

2013

“Hundred Grand”, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara

2012

Santa Barbara Studio Artists – Divine Inspiration Gallery, Santa Barbara

“Abstracts +” SBTC Gallery, Santa Barbara

2011

“A Window Between Worlds” James Gray Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica

Santa Barbara Studio Artists – Divine Inspiration Gallery, Santa Barbara

“100 Grand” Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara

2010

“Santa Barbara in the Abstract” – Corridan Gallery, Santa Barbara.

      Featuring Peggy Ferris, Fran Scorzelli and Karen Aguilar

“Gem” – Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825

“Following Feitelson” – Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825, curated by Louis Stern.

“Project A-5” – Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara

2009

Santa Barbara Studio Artists – Divine Inspiration Gallery, Santa Barbara

“Summer Stock” – Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara

“Gem” – Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

2008

“Five Santa Barbara Artists” – Bakersfield Museum of Art Collectors Gallery, Bakersfield, CA

“Santa Barbara Studio Artists 2008” – Arts Fund Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

“LAAA 2008 Benefit Auction” – Gallery825, Los Angeles, CA

Group Show, ongoing – Sales and Rental Gallery at LACMA, Los Angeles, CA

“Gem” – Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

“Individual Artist Awards 2008” –  SB County Arts Fund Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

“Los Angeles Art Show 2008” (in conjunction with Los Angeles Art Association), CA

2007

“Santa Barbara Studio Artists” – Corridan Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

Santa Barbara Studio Artists Open Studio Tour, Santa Barbara, CA

“Open Show, 2007; Curated by Howard Fox, LACMA” –  Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

2006

“Best of Santa Barbara Artists” - Corridan Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA

Group – Gallery 113, Santa Barbara, CA

“Malibu Art Association Group Show” – James Gray Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA

Santa Barbara Studio Artists Open Studios Tour, Santa Barbara, CA

“Another Language” Group abstract show – Fielding Institute, Santa Barbara, CA

“8 Unique Artists” – Santa Barbara Tours de Arte, Santa Barbara, CA

Group Show –  Gallery 113, Santa Barbara, CA

Group Show – Montecito Frame and Gallery, Montecito, CA

2005

“MAA Annual Juried Show” – Santa Monica Airport’s Barker Hanger, Santa Monica, CA

Santa Barbara Studio Artists Open Studio Tour, Santa Barbara, CA

Affiliations

Abstract 10: Abstract artist group in Santa Barbara

Film Art LA / Art Image LA - artist representation

Poems Art - artist representation

Central California Museum of Art - Advisory Board member

Awards

2008 – “Individual Artist Award Competition 2008” Honorable Mention, Abstract Painting: The SB County Arts Fund, Santa Barbara, CA

2006 – “MAA Annual Juried Show” Honorable Mention – Santa Monica Airport’s Barker Hanger, Santa Monica, CA

2004 – “Individual Artists Award Competition 2004” Finalist,  Painting Category: The SB County Arts Fund, Santa Barbara, CA

1982 – Dale Brubaker award, based on design portfolio and presented to one student in the graduating class from international

            design firm Landor Associates. At Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

Education

1983:  BFA with honors, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

1977 - 79:  Art and design classes, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, Holland

1975:  BA with honors, English, UC Santa Barbara, CA

PEGGY FERRIS BIO

Born into solid Americana in the 1950’s, experiencing the cultural reset of the 60’s and entering college in the 70’s, Peggy Ferris’s kaleidoscopic past got off to a roaring start.

Graduating college with a respectable degree in English, the adventures were just beginning. Having been severely discouraged from pursuing art in college, she defiantly and abruptly left for Holland in 1977 seeking an education and experiences connected to the fine arts. A 7-month charter turned into a two year stint in The Hague, where she learned to speak fluent Dutch and attended the Royal Academy of Art, studying graphic design, apprenticing with a local design firm and involving herself in the thriving and highly government-supported art scene.

At the behest of her parents she eventually returned to the US and enrolled in Art Center College of Design in Pasadena where she graduated with honors in graphic design and packaging. Upon graduation she received the prestigious Dale Brubaker award, given to one student of outstanding merit. Tragically unemployable, however, she got fired from two consecutive jobs in LA following graduation and immediately made her way back to Santa Barbara, where her 20+ career as sole proprietor of Peggy Ferris Design was successfully launched. During these years her clients included such diverse concerns as Elvis Presley’s Graceland and Forest Lawn Mortuary.

In the early 2000’s she had had enough and returned to the fine arts, initially working in a hard-edge style she had experimented with in Holland. Eventually transitioning to a looser gestural form of abstraction her artistic sensibilities are influenced and informed by her decades in the design world and her ongoing interest in and development of mark-making.

Today she lives and works in the Foothills of Santa Barbara, running her live/work space “Chaparral Studios” where she continues to paint as well as hosting workshops and art and poetry events.