Biography of Bobby Pearl
While Bobby was raising four children, going part time to College and then part time to Law School, she was also sculpting. After she got her law degree and settled into her Arbitration and Mediation practice, she also got serious about sculpting. When the last child left the nest in the late 1980s, Bobby was able to spend more time on her art.
Bobby took classes at the Elisabeth Ney Sculpture Conservatory, later titled Austin Sculpture Center. She participated in the school’s programs as student in 1987, then advanced to faculty member , board member, then Director.
Since she was fifteen, Bobby studied art in whatever part of the world she lived. She took classes at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India, the Art Department at Yale and in many sculpture societies in New York, Virginia, Indiana, Connecticut, California, Maine, and Texas. She participated in open studio sessions whenever available. Bobby continues to exhibit now in her own sculpture garden (Bobby’s Bone Tree Sculpture Garden,) in Austin, Texas.
Activities(Highlights):
- A Documentary Film Her Stories, My Hands about Bobby’s work was exhibited at Dallas Video and Film Festival, August 3-7, 2005 at the Dallas Museum of Art and the Dallas Theater Center. The Austin Jewish Film Festival also screened the documentary in December, 2006 and January, 2007. The Library at Ellis Island solicited and received several copies of Her Stories, My Hands. Several Jewish Museums also have the documentary in their libraries. It is available by contacting the artist herself.
- February 2, 2005-April 6, 2005 Her Stories, My Hands was featured over a period of ten weeks in the National Jewish Post and Opinion, published in Indianapolis, Indiana.
- An article by Bobby on the ceramic art of Ishmael Soto appeared in the December 2003 Issue of Ceramics Monthly: Ishmael Soto, Artist; The article was re-published in the Ceramic Arts Handbook Series, Extruder, Mold Tile.
- When Bobby isn't sculpting, she is writing.
Juried shows (Highlights):
- Aug. 2003: Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, TX : Award winner
- Apr. 2003: Austin Bergstrom International Airport
- Nov. 1993: Mexic-arte Museum, Two Person Show: "Celebration of Jewish Culture and Art", Austin, Texas
- May 1990: Sunset Gallery, "Expressions of the Human Figure", Austin, Texas
- July 1981: World Trade Center, Tower One, First American Show, "Artists, U.S.A.", New York, New York
- Mar.-Apr. 1980: Keane-Mason Gallery, "Womanart", 50 West 57th St., New York, New York