About
Bio
Marissa Klee-Peregon is an interdisciplinary artist currently working in soft sculpture, installation/intervention, performance, and photography. They graduated from Wellesley College with a B.A. in studio art and art history, after which they held the Post Baccalaureate Fellowship in Art at Kalamazoo College. They have participated in residencies at The Birdsell Project in South Bend, Indiana and the Kirk Newman School of Art in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Their work has been supported by the Kalamazoo Artistic Development Initiative Grant and the Wellesley College Friends of Art Prize for Excellence in Studio Art. They are a founding member of Cloudhouse Studio, an artist-run exhibition and studio space in so-called Kalamazoo, MI. When not in the studio, they can generally be found at the climbing gym, in a co-op meeting, or mending their friends’ clothes.
Artist Statement
My work deals with instability, emptiness, and the desire to be filled. I find beauty in failure and emptiness, and I explore the idea that absence can be just as meaningful as presence. I am interested in the structures around us — literal and metaphorical — and in how they fail, droop, and collapse. Ultimately, I am interested in failure as a site of possibility, joy, and pleasure. I work with textiles for their droopiness; their frequent failure to hold their own shape; and for their pleasurable softness when held against ones’ skin.
Contact
To get in touch, please email me at m.kleeperegon@gmail.com.