INTAGLIO RELIEF ART
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ORIGINS OF MY RELIEFS

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   In 1975, while studying drawing and painting at the Art Students League and sculpture at the New School, I decided to portray what I was saw in a new way.  After about a year of false starts, I began reading up on the physiology of vision at Flower 5th Avenue hospital library and was attracted to Egyptian reliefs at the Met.  I realized It might be possible to create visual illusions in a shallow three dimensional space. 
         
             One day I decided to do a still life of pears on a plate.  Instead of painting on the front of the canvas, I pressed some sculpture clay into the back of the stretched canvas, forming a tablet.   I sketched the outlines of the pears and the plate on the clay with my brush handle and then built up the pear forms with more clay.   

             For the cast shadows, I instinctively hollowed out the clay.  The light from the north windows of my 7th Street studio lit up the pears and created  real shadows in the hollows.  I was stunned by the concept of working directly with light and shadow on a relief surface.  I had fallen through two dimensions into a new realm.

             I have been exploring this realm ever since, marking trail with my reliefs, now numbering over 1,200 original pieces and many more editions.  I have learned a new way of seeing, and by necessity have invented new materials, easels, tools and methods of working.  After 40 years, I have barely scratched the surface. 


            



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First Relief 1975-01 Pears     Acrylic on clay  8.5"x9.5"x1"
Here are photos of my 7th Street NYC studio, my 649 Mai  Street Brewster, MA studio, my 1772 Main Street, Brewster studio, tool, materials, etc.
  • HOME
  • NEW
    • 2020 Reliefs
    • Thoughts on life and art
    • Evolution from real to abstract
    • RELIEF DEMONSTRATION
  • RECENT RELIEFS AND GENRES
    • View from Quarantine 4/2020
    • Eastham Library Show
    • Split Personalities
    • 2019 Reliefs
    • STILL LIFE RELIEFS
    • DANCER RELIEFS
    • ABSTRACT/GEOMETRIC RELIEFS
    • LANDSCAPE RELIEFS
    • NUDES
    • PEOPLE/FACES
    • INTERIORS
    • SMALL SUNBATHER RELIEFS
    • BIG ONES
    • QUIRKY RELIEFS
  • UNDERSTANDING RELIEF
    • ORIGINS OF RELIEF >
      • PERCEPTION
      • RELIEF PROCESS
      • RELIEF LIGHTING
      • Windows/Reflections 1973-1995
      • LIGHT AND COLOR IN RELIEF
  • ARTIST INFO
    • BIO
    • ART EXHIBITIONS, ETC. >
      • Cahoon Spring Show
      • Brewster Ladies Library 5/19 show
    • EARLY ART WORK 1967-75
  • OTHER RICHARD PERRY ART
    • CLASSICAL SCULPTURES
    • WIRE SCULPTURES
    • PORTRAIT SKETCHES
    • FIGURE DRAWINGS
    • STILL LIFE DRAWINGS
    • PHOTOGRAPHY