Artist Member
154 Ripples: icicle
185 Ripples: glass of water
195 Ripples: water(wheel)
Chris Perry 
BIO
Following a degreed study in painting, Chris moved to New York where he worked in the art world, first at the Guggenheim Museum, and later for a selection of artists. His own work progressed slowly while he pursued a career in architectural woodworking until 2007 when he returned to making art full time. He currently resides in Ridgefield, CT.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
In 2008, Chris started creating books modeled on flip books, but with the action expressed by cutting away the empty space around the object in question. Because the offset caused by the signatures, he titled the series Ripples, beginning a continuing set of pieces that emulate water in its many forms, both as forces of nature and as structures that are both manmade and natural.
The early pieces stood alone, single volumes that had a small number of pages, each carefully planned and cut into moving shapes, all within the body of the volume. As they became more complicated they accumulated multiple volumes and started to “sprout” appendages of cut paper that extended out from all edges and eventually from the spine as well.
The works incorporate a number of signature elements to elicit the information he wishes the viewer to take away, in the same fashion a writer will use the same elements repeatedly in her writing––the use odd names, or staging the action in the same time period or location over and over, or simply to have a particular way of crafting sentences.
While still exploring the small spaces he creates within a few hand-cut volumes, Chris is actively planning pieces that address entire rooms using thousands of volumes to depict water structures such as a cataract, a tsunami, or a storm front.