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Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Sir Grayson Perry

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Sir Grayson Perry (- 1960) is an English artist known for his ceramic vases, tapestries, and cross-dressing, as well as his observations of the contemporary arts scene, dissecting British prejudices, fashions and foibles.

Perry graduated from Portsmouth Polytechnic with a BA in fine arts in 1982.

Perry is renowned for his eccentric and politically charged artworks.

There is a strong autobiographical element in his work, in which images of Perry as Claire, his female alter ego, and Alan Measles, his childhood teddy bear, often appear.In his work Perry reflects upon his upbringing as a boy, his stepfather’s anger and the absence of proper guidance about male conduct.Perry’s urns are rendered with an incomprehensible master-craft: their surfaces richly textured from designs marked into the clay, followed by intricately complicated glazing and photo-transfer techniques.A master of the incongruous juxtaposition, Perry scrawls savage satirical messages alongside sentiments of nostalgia for lost innocence.More of Grayson Perry’s unique vases can be found at https://www.artsy.net/artist/grayson-perryson-perry

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Heath Satow

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Heath Satow (-1969) is an American artist who works in fabricated metals. Satow attended North Carolina State University School of Design where he graduated with honors with a concentration in sculpture.The curved facets of his sculptural surfaces pull apart our visual surroundings, distort and re-order them in unexpected ways, creating a new interpretation of the world we usually tune out and take for granted.Satow’s intention with these pieces is to tune us back into the world around us.”I work primarily with mirror-polished stainless because of the visual variety it offers daily,” Satow shares.

“As natural light changes, as the colors of the seasons change, even as people’s fashion changes, all these permutations are literally reflected in the work.”More of Heath Satow’s amazing sculptures can be found at https://www.publicsculpture.com/.