Contact the artist:
website: www.jimperrystudio.com
email: jimperrystudio@gmail.com

James Perry was born in New York City and grew up in northern Bucks County, Pa. He received a B.A. in sculpture from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.

He began his career as a sculptor living and working in New York City in 1971. His early work was exhibited widely and was included in the Whitney Museum Biennial Exhibition in 1975.

In the late 1970s, he left the art world to pursue another path: journalism. In 1980 he joined The New York Times where he worked as a graphics editor for the next 28 years.

Upon an early retirement from The Times in 2008 he returned to making sculpture. His studio is in Princeton, NJ.

Artist Statement:
I have been working with wood for over 30 years. In making sculpture, it allows for endless forms and varied textures and colors. Wood can be manipulated in many different ways: shaped, carved, and constructed. And working with wood feels good and smells good.

Much of my early work was fairly minimal, geometric and angular. More recently I’ve become fascinated by the idea of taking wood and making it bend and curve in ways that seem counter-intuitive to the material itself. During the process of building a piece of sculpture, I start with an initial idea, but allow it to evolve in ways that often yield surprising and unexpected results. I like making forms with wood that are pleasing to the eye but also complex and challenging.