Andrew Mosby Perry's Artist Statement

Andrew Perry is a visual fine artist at heart. His passion for painting and drawing goes back a great number of years. Perry has always savored the anticipation he feels while designing a unique image and slowly watching it materialize on the canvas. Perry thinks of art as a form of the “old magic”. Andrew Perry’s personal philosophy is that the best way to depict what you want for an image is to let go of your practical mind and try several different approaches. The image in your mind’s eye is magically transformed and adapted to fit the constraints of your skill level.

What really defines much of Perry’s body of work is this shared vibe of uneasiness and surreal discomfort, even when the visual content is supposedly “sexy” or “aesthetically pleasing”. Perry’s intentional addition of tension or suspense to his more personal visual narratives, allows the paintings strike a nerve within some folks or to address the concerns of others. Much like a film, Perry’s work uses visual metaphors to talk about people’s insecurities and society’s flaws. Perry’s work consists of a variety of different compositional styles and depending on his mood, this imagery is manifested through the mediums of either painting, mono printing, or amateur photography.

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