About Stuart Perlman
As an artist, Stuart Perlman explores and illuminates the emotional and psychological experience of being human, using intense colors, thick paint and many mediums. Fine Art Connoisseur magazine called his paintings “Great art worldwide,” and they have been featured in the Los Angeles Times, Guardian of London, Vanity Fair Italia, the Taipei Times and the Jewish Journal. He has had over 60 exhibitions of his art.
Deeply informing his art is that for over 40 years, Stuart has been a psychologist and psychoanalyst in clinical practice. He has published many articles in psychoanalytic journals, and authored the book, The Therapist’s Emotional Survival: Dealing with the Pain of Exploring Trauma. His book of paintings, Struggle in Paradise and his newest book, Open Your Heart Through Art: Painting Human Souls and Their Stories, are about 250 homeless individuals, featuring moving oil-on-canvas portraits, their life stories and what happens to them years later. His documentary about people living on the streets, Struggle in Paradise, won the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis’ Best Movie of the Year Award.
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