Mixed media on card
1997
10cm x 15cm
4″ x 6″
Signed verso
£500
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Despite appearing to use an all-over approach to the canvas, Perfect uses a system of separation and layering to translate the freehand and subliminal material that originates from his drawings on paper. This process, whilst affording the freedom of control and coherence, allows for elements of ‘printmaking’ and the ‘collaged’ to appear in the work.
‘The ideas in my work are tightly bound to the physical performance of making them. My paintings are like imagined interior or psychological landscapes…In my paintings I’m thinking about the nature of what it is to be us in this world right now.’
Perfect’s work came to prominence in ‘Death to the Fascist Insect that Preys on the Life of the People’ at Anthony d’Offay Gallery in 2001. In 2002, for these works, Perfect was selected for Beck’s Futures at the ICA, London. He has exhibited at other London galleries such as Chisenhale Gallery, Karsten Schubert, The Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), the Andrea Rosen Gallery, NY and the Saatchi Gallery in 2005.
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