Artist Talk: Sam Perry

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Curve is the perfect title for Sam Perry’s exhibit of wood sculpture. His forms curve, weave, and intertwine in shapes that become metaphors for human feelings and interactions. Perry first learned how to sculpt wood as a teenager in his family’s Honolulu canoe shop, where he learned that “wood is not lumber; it’s a being with a legacy of its own.” Perry is fascinated with the stories told by the pieces of wood he works with, the ups and downs of a tree’s life and its ultimate mortality. All of the wood he uses has fallen naturally, and much of it comes from Runnymede Sculpture Farm in Woodside, California, where he has worked for over twenty years.

Perry left Hawaii in 1982 to study at California College of Arts and Crafts (now the California College of the Arts) in Oakland, where he studied ceramics with renowned ceramic sculptor Viola Frey, later becoming her assistant for many years. Around 1999–2000, he began working with wood. Perry received an MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts, and is currently the Director of Installation and Conservation at Runnymede Sculpture Farm. His career includes multiple solo exhibitions, most recently at St. Mary’s College in Moraga in 2014, and Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco in 2013. Perry’s work is also in the permanent public collections of Runnymede Sculpture Farm in Woodside, and di Rosa Preserve in Napa. See more of his work at http://www.samperrystudio.com.

Sam Perry will be interviewed by Richard Whittaker, founder and editor of the works & conversations magazine, on Sunday, June 28, at 3 pm.

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