Perry Burns received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.., and Masters degree from Columbia University, New York, N.Y. in 1994. He has lived and worked on the east end of Long Island, New York for the past 30 years working as a professional painter, photographer and teacher..
Inspired by travels to many different countries around the world, Burns’ paintings are influenced by Middle Eastern, Far Eastern, African and Indian sensibilities of color, pattern and form. He brings this sensibility to both abstract and representational painting often alluding to aspects of the east end of Long Island landscape and seascape.
Burns has had more than thirty solo exhibitions nationally and internationally, including fellowships and residencies at Yaddo, the Vermont Studio Center, the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His work is held in many private and public collections, including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Knight Foundation, and the Brant Foundation, among others. He has exhibited locally for many years at the Sara Nightingale Gallery as well as the Parrish Art Museum, Guild Hall Museum, The Islip Art Museum and the Heckscher Museum.
Jolie Parcher is the Founder and Director of Mandala Yoga Center for Healing Arts, and has been a certified yoga teacher from The Patanjali Yoga Center in Kathmandu, Nepal since 1990. Jolie is certified as an Ayurvedic Diet & Lifestyle Practitioner from the Kripalu School of Ayurveda and is trained as a practitioner of the Ayurvedic hands on Treatments as well as an Aromatherapist.
Her yoga classes guide you to maintain a steady synchronicity of breath and movement as a way to experience a deep listening of Self. She’ll keep you moving in a strength-building flow incorporating steps along the way for your body and mind to fully embody the complexity of each posture. There is often Ayurvedic wisdom and tools for daily well-being woven throughout. As a student of the classic Ashtanga system she returns to that particular tradition to shape much of her sequencing. It’s a practice that celebrates a vibrant life both on and off the mat.