While
visiting the d berman gallery this weekend to check out their current
black and white photography exhibits - George Krause's Sfumato Nudes
and Sean Perry's Transitory Series - we got ahold of a copy of Mr.
Perry's limited-edition book of the same works being shown, "Transitory".
In "Transitory",
Sean Perry - who last year was among the Austin Chronicle's Top
Ten Artists of 2004, and rightfully so - explores the geometrical
subtleties inherent in industrial structures. He manages to deconstruct
complex artificial constructs like electrical towers, city highrises,
and space satellites and render them as simple, abstract shapes.
Like a Euclidian iconographer, Perry seems to be reminding us that
cylinders, arcs, rectangles and the like exist not just in the highschool
texts we all wrestled with, but are embedded in our everyday surroundings.
His
key message is knowing when to look: in the book's introduction,
he writes: "The images exist in that transitory moment - between
a tension of conflict and harmony, where intent is manifest and
unfettered." Perhaps it does indeed require that delicate balance
between light and shadow in order to view these industrial landscapes
as Perry sees them; we're content to gape in awe at what he's brought
before us instead.
The
"Transitory" series is now on exhibit at the d berman
gallery (17th and Guadalupe), through September 10th. His limited-edition
Transitory Exhibition Catalog, each signed and numbered, is available
for purchase at the gallery.
You
can also log into KUT's "Arts Eclectic" for an interview
with the photographer. [arts eclectic]
Posted by Allen Y Chen in Art
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