Faculty Profile

Barry Perlus is an artist and educator who employs photography and digital imaging in his artistic practice. His work embodies a keen interest in observation and interpretation, using elements of scale, perspective, light, color, and abstraction to create new interpretations.

In recent projects, Perlus has been using panoramic imaging techniques as a departure from conventional pictorial space. With this approach he developed a multimedia website about the large-scale astronomical observatories built in India by Jai Singh in the early 18th century. His long-standing interest in science has been an influence in other projects, including a current exploration of deep forest spaces at night.

Perlus received his M.F.A. in photography from Ohio University in 1984 and B.A. Undergraduate Scholar from Case Western Reserve University in 1972.

• ART 3605 Studio Photography
• ART 7001 Graduate Studio I
• ART 8001 Graduate Studio III
• ART 4609 Independent Studio in Photography
• ART 1601 Photography I

• STELLARIUM.ORG Panoramic image of the Jantar Mantar at New Delhi developed collaboratively as a landscape for use in conjunction with Stellarium’s sky viewing software  (2008)  http://www.stellarium.org/wiki/index.php/Landscapes
• OBSERVATORIES: Curated by Emma Reeves – image of the Jantar Mantar at New Delhi included in this portfolio of images of observatories around the world. Another Magazine, Autumn/Winter 2006
• JANTAR MANTAR: The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh – a multimedia project-in-progress in: proceedings of the VAST 2005 International Symposium on Virtual Reality and Cultural Heritage

• Faculty Innovation in Technology Award, Cornell (2005 and 2006)
• Graham Foundation for Advanced Study in Fine Arts Award (2005)
• Light Works 30th Annual Grants for Photography (2004)
• Cornell Council for the Arts Small Projects Grant (2004)
• International Works on Paper Exhibition Juror's Award (2003)

• The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh, Stanley Center for the Arts, Utica, NY (2009)
• India Interpreted, two-person exhibition, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY (2008)
• 61st Exhibition of Central NY Artists, Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY (2008)

• Jantarmantar.org