Vicky Perry is a contemporary realist painter, based in the Washington, DC area, whose oil works on panel and linen treat flowers and statues as totemic emblems — quiet messengers carrying the weight of the world around them. Her recent solo exhibition Secret Life of Flower at the Stone Tower Gallery was praised by The Washington Post for its “playful juxtapositions” and “comprehensive unity.”
These paintings are tied together using floral elements in a quantum arrangement. Vicky Perry has returned repeatedly to realist renditions of flowers and statues as totemic images. The flower – an object of naturally refined beauty – is a powerful messenger, attracting and engaging while existing as an emblem of an imaginary universe. The commentary on today’s world: each flower is a personality that exist as a gold standard against which civilization may be measured. Statues, likewise, are parts of reality one step removed into an idealized state.
From Washington Post review:
In her Stone Tower Gallery show, Perry foregrounds bright, precisely rendered blooms before complex, half-hidden backdrops. Flowers may dance across the sky in front of a massive waterfall, or rest next to a culture on which floral motifs are carved in stone. These playful juxtapositions are meant, according to the artist’s statement, to yield “a comprehensive unity.”