In Pat Perry’s Paintings, the Subtleness of America is “Especially Terrific”


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Andrew Wyeth wrote of his painitngs, “I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it… I always want to see the third dimension of something… I want to come alive with the object.” The thing about America is that so much is real and so much is immediately committed to folklore. We are a country of tales, of regions with their own set of campfire themes and somehow over the course of 3,000 plus miles we try and make it all one thing to talk about when we talk about America. Pat Perry, in that tradition of the elusive Americana and what that means, threads a needle of painting the very familar but…

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