Richard Perkins
- adam lampton-
- andrew brilliant-
- elisabeth cugini-
- gretjen h. hargesheimer-
- kelly carmody-
- richard perkins-
- russell eric moore-
- seth minkin-
Richard Perkins has exhibited his work in Sweden, Boston, and across Canada. He received an MFA from the University of Guelph and is currently based in Cambridge, MA.
For the past ten years Perkins’ art practice has combined two and three-dimensional disciplines. His most recent paintings are based on crudely made architectural models, which in turn have been based on specific memories or more fleeting recollections from his past. Despite their differences, the spaces depicted in each painting seemingly belong to the same, hive-like structure. Yet it is an artificial world, where exterior walls suspiciously extend towards the four edges of the canvas, and where the depicted spaces rarely hide their origins as hand-made objects. In the absence of life and the suggestion of abandonment, and in the free mixing of the real and the imaginary, the paintings depict a world of psychological states as much as physical places.
