Brick Fence
2023
New Orleans, Louisiana
Paige DeVries is a New Orleans-based painter whose work examines the interface between people, nature, and the suburban environment of her neighborhood and city. DeVries grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, where she developed an appreciation and reverence for nature that continues to impact her artistic sensibilities and interests. DeVries’ paintings have been shown locally and nationally, most notably at Art Basel, Miami. Her work will be published in the upcoming New American Paintings 2023 issue, MFA Annual. She is a recipient of the Florence Leif Grant, RISD Trustees' Scholarship, and the Anderson Ranch Arts Center Brooks Fellowship. DeVries received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2013 and is currently pursuing her MFA at the University of New Orleans (graduating in Spring 2024), where she also teaches undergraduate drawing courses.
Joan Mitchell Center Residency, 2024
My painting practice focuses on depicting my neighborhood in Algiers, New Orleans. Through this subject matter, I examine the humor, care, and sometimes futile effort to control one’s immediate surroundings and express ideas of beauty and order.”