| | | | | | Danny Perkins Solo Exhibit | | | event details: | |
| 04/07/05 - 04/30/05 |  | Address:
R. Duane Reed Gallery
529 West 20th Street, 7th Floor
New York, NY 10011 US
| | Reception:
Thursday, 04/14/05
6-8pm |
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| description:
Danny Perkins creates broken vessels of floating color fields and undulating space. They tower, sometimes precariously. They seem vaguely figurative, albeit ghostly.
His exhibit of current work, which opens April 7th and runs through April 30th, is visually stunning and powerfully compelling. The art critic Matthew Kangas has said in describing Perkins’ work, “Standing tall, Perkins’ vessel sculptures are irregular and asymmetrical … torn, tattered, repaired and, finally, redeemed through personal values: resistance to the mainstream and an integrity often at odds with the establishment”.
His process comes from a spiritual, intuitive journey. He blows the very large glass vessels, a feat of strength, but negates them with water and heat strategically used to create fragments. These are then infused with color, using oils, before restoring them to their original size and grandeur, but now enhanced through their trials. He says, echoing Kandinsky, “My creative process is an intuitive journey that takes me to levels beyond what I intellectually know. I feel honesty and humility at the time of creation”.
Danny Perkins work is exhibited widely throughout the United States. He is represented in the permanent collections of the Corning Museum of Glass, the Oakland Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art, Renwick Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the McAllen International Museum - McAllen, Texas
Mr. Perkins will be giving a demonstration at UrbanGlass in Brooklyn, on Sunday Apri1 17th.
For more information or visuals please contact John Elder at (212) 462-2600.
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