06/06/2024
Van Dearing Perrine refused to be pinned down. He spent his youth in Kansas, oscillating between work as a farm hand, plasterer, and lather, before moving to New York to study art. He soon escaped the city, however, and moved into abandoned quarry-workers quarters at the foot of the palisades to paint in relative isolation. While there, he pivoted to designing machines which projected abstract patterns of colored light onto walls, and wrote a children’s book, “Let the Child Draw.” Perrine’s appetite for wide experience, and his willingness to constantly disassemble and reform his own artistic practice, are evident in such exuberant and formally innovative works as “Underneath Nature.”
Van Dearing Perrine, Underneath Nature
$30,000