Artist Bio
Stuart Perlman has been a psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in West Los Angeles for over 30 years. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA in Clinical Psychology and a second Ph.D. from the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute. Stuart is a Training Analyst at ICP, the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis. He has published many articles in psychoanalytic journals, and authored the book, The Therapist’s Emotional Survival: Dealing with the Pain of Exploring Trauma.
After a hiatus of 25 years, Stuart returned to one of his early passions, painting. He has devoted thousands of hours to painting the experiences of the homeless. Stuart chose portraiture, a style traditionally used to immortalize the rich, famous and powerful, to remind us that these individuals, also, are to be valued: “If we can see the faces of the homeless and learn their stories - their hopes, dreams, accomplishments and fears - we can no longer pretend that they do not exist…we can no longer look the other way.”
The Faces Of Homelessness portrait project has been exhibited throughout Los Angeles, covered on Public Radio (KPCC), featured in print in Column One of the front page of the Los Angeles Times, in other national newspapers, and as a cover story in the Jewish Journal. Stuart’s documentary about this project, Struggle in Paradise, won the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis’ Best Movie of the Year Award in 2013.
After a hiatus of 25 years, Stuart returned to one of his early passions, painting. He has devoted thousands of hours to painting the experiences of the homeless. Stuart chose portraiture, a style traditionally used to immortalize the rich, famous and powerful, to remind us that these individuals, also, are to be valued: “If we can see the faces of the homeless and learn their stories - their hopes, dreams, accomplishments and fears - we can no longer pretend that they do not exist…we can no longer look the other way.”
The Faces Of Homelessness portrait project has been exhibited throughout Los Angeles, covered on Public Radio (KPCC), featured in print in Column One of the front page of the Los Angeles Times, in other national newspapers, and as a cover story in the Jewish Journal. Stuart’s documentary about this project, Struggle in Paradise, won the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis’ Best Movie of the Year Award in 2013.