The aim of my artwork has always felt more to me like the aim of a writer. Making artwork has always been a push to make sense of this *whole* thing and to share a conversation with others about the short time I’ve been alive, through imagery. Each piece plays a role as a particular slice of a larger story, and is made in an effort to share the beauties and tragedies that everyday life brings. The past is how we put the present into context, especially with our own personal memories, and…

Pencil on paper, 2014. Personal work.

A peek inside the sketchbooks of Michigan based artist and illustrator Pat Perry reveals a fascinating world where the natural world seems on a direct collision course with the urban. Silhouettes of people and wildlife are filled with rich, textured stories that seem to be representative of dreamlike memories. The detail in Perry’s work isContinue reading "The Natural and Urban Collide in the Drawings of Pat Perry"

Pat Perry is an artist based in Michigan who created intricate surreal and whimsical illustrations which he would speak to his audience through. View the

Rather than limiting his creative expertise to the visual arts, Pat Perry flourishes too as an intrepid traveller, prolific storyteller and, at times, a disaffected youth and romantic philosophiser…

Anton Marrast's sketchbook has tons of intriguing two-page spreads that I'm having a good time trying to make sense of.

Pat Perry is an artist and illustrator born in the Detroit area and now calls Grand Rapids, Michigan home. The lands of the north, colorful people, music, and the ordinary streets of the Midwest have always moved him.

Detroit-based artist Pat Perry (previously) renders intricate, fantastical portraits of humans and our relationship to the natural world—a dynamic that is sometimes harmonious, sometimes adversarial. His multi-media drawings and paintings range from monochrome sketches handheld notebooks to multicolored murals on building walls. In all of his artwork, Perry balances finely worked details with sweeping gesturalContinue reading "Pat Perry’s Intricate Portraits of People Intertwined with the…