村上隆のインスタグラム(takashipom) - 1月24日 07時06分

I encountered Pat Perry’s work around two years ago on Instagram.
The works I saw depicted, with a realistic touch, people wearing curious masks doing strange things. With the bleak rural American settings, the kind I admired and yearned for as a young boy watching the movie Stand by Me, as the backdrop, human dramas reminiscent of Bruegel paintings seemed to unfold within imagined stories. They stirred something in my heart.
His works in acrylic painted on plywood are exquisitely intricate and his drawings, while done in pencil, so meticulously and completely cover the surface that they seem to breathe.

Born in 1992, Perry lives and works in Detroit, Michigan.
The appearance of the artist himself immediately reminded me of “Hobo” fashion I used to see in Japanese fashion magazines 30 years or so ago; he left me a strong impression with his well-worn baseball hat, thick knit sweater, and worn out sneakers. Or rather, I thought he resembled myself from 30 years ago. Young and fearless, with only hope and anger to his name—his appearance that seemed to embody youth itself also pierced my heart.

We will hold his first solo exhibition in Japan. I hope you will come visit.
@hidarizingaro @bar_zingaro

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