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THE CITY
Perkins
uses architecture as a means to explore the pervasiveness of memory.
His oil paintings are based on models he constructs out of cardboard
and mixed media. The models represent made-up architectural spaces,
with a basis in the artists' own recollection of buildings from his
past. This combination of real and imagined spaces conjures an
illusionary utopia where architecture represents a psychological state
as much as it does a material property.
Ivan Jurakic
2005
Curator, Cambridge Galleries |
"Former
Guelph resident and artist Richard Perkins' latest exhibit is a truly
fascinating analysis of memory as a malleable construct..."
Vish
Khanna
"Painting the
City." Pulse Niagara.
Volume 20, No. 9, 2006.
"Yesterday
was a beautiful, warm and
sunny July day. I left work early and walked toward Parc de
Lafontaine..."
Jennifer
Dorner
"Reconstructing Memory: Factual Errors and
Fictional
Truths (On the Recent Paintings of Richard Perkins)."
2005.
"The
unsettling ‘alternative reality’ of Richard Perkins’
large-scale paintings is no surprise, given the process of their
making..."
Beth
McEachen
"Richard Perkins, The City.'"
2006. |
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