James Perrin
Region: South
My work explores the visual language contained within a created
object, the painting—a tactile image constructed of physical
material, with suggestions of depth and flatness, demonstrating
various pictorial constructions originating from how we see
and experience real space, objects, matter, and life within the
constraints of time.
I approach painting as a self-contained language system with
polysemic image suggestions that creates fluctuating events of
pareidolia. I am interested in painting as a mode of communication
that transverses time and culture—as a sensory communicative
experience between artist and viewer. My work incorporates a
variety of ideas, frameworks, and strategies. My latest paintings
incorporate images and ideas derived from retail interiors,
Caribbean beaches, fashion, CT scans, medical photographs,
passages from paintings by Giotto, Masaccio, Enguerrand
Quarton, and Fra Angelico, segments of my previous work, as well
as photos from my daily life.