Perry Nichols - Artist Info

About Perry Nichols

  • Biography

    Perry Brooks Nichols, a plein-air landscape painter and abstract method artist, was born in 1981 in Dallas, Texas. He is the grandson of Perry Boyd Nichols, the Texas Regionalist and member of the Dallas Nine, and of Mary Nell Brooks. He is also the great nephew of James Brooks, the New York Abstract Expressionist.

    Growing up in Dallas, he was surrounded by the work of his ancestors. This circumstance, along with the city's changing landscape, had a profound cumulative effect upon the development of his imagination.

    He studied at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual arts, graduating in 1999. He then enrolled in the SMU Meadows School of Arts, completing his Bachelor's of Fine A...

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