"As a medium clay provides me an opportunity to create vessels, objects and teapots that embody a dynamic, visual tension that expresses an intensely personal vision and process which stands side by side with my industrial design work. The goal I set for myself is that my ceramic art work communicates a sense of feeling; whether it’s exuberance, peace or intrigue. Evoking an emotional response from the viewer means I’ve achieved success."
"My clay art is primarily about process, the finished pieces are wonderful to me and they must meet my goals, but basically, they just sort of happen. The reason I experience it that way is because I create the shape of each piece as I’ve got the clay in my hands. I spend a great deal of time on each one and it’s the process of making and understanding what I’m doing that is important to me. When I’m into the development of the piece I love getting the relationships just so; the surfaces complimenting the relationships, working out the details of how one form fits up against another, looking at what’s there and moving the forms so the spaces feel right. While I'm doing this I access my early training with Rowena Reed Kostellow and remember a joyous time in my life; a time of discovery and discipline; of unearthing a talent unbeknown to me; and feeling great about finding that talent. When I have a tool or the clay in my hand I feel complete, I’m having fun, it’s the best time there is."
As an artist Gordon Perry creates the pieces that are shown on this website. As principal of his industrial design firm, Gordon Randall Perry Design, Gordon designs products for a wide range of companies and his design work is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Gordon's work has also been exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum; The Chicago Athenaeum, the Materials ConneXtion, the Living Design Center OZONE in Tokyo, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and in an exposition about American design created for the United States Information Agency that went to Russia, as well as in other local exhibitions. He is a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). He has been a guest speaker for the American Management Association, the MIT Enterprise Forum, the National Art Education Association, Interiors magazine and the IDSA. His designs and viewpoints have appeared in the books: American Design, Burridge Index, Gadgets, Marketing for the Small Design Firm, Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design, Power Packaging and Product Design 2, 4, 5 and 6, as well as in the publications Attenzione, Bon Appetit, Contract, Family Fun, Gourmet Today, HFD, ID, Interior Design, Interiors, Metropolitan Home, Modern Office Technology, Packaging Digest, PC Magazine, PC Week, Plastics Design Forum, R&D Magazine, Newsweek, The Chicago Tribune, Today's Office and Tools.
Gordon holds both a Master and a Bachelor of Industrial Design Degree from Pratt Institute. Subsequent to Pratt he studied with Paolo Soleri at the Soleri Architectural Workshop. He held the rank of full professor at Pratt, having taught design part-time for 14 years on the graduate and undergraduate levels. Gordon also taught at Parsons for several years which is where he started creating ceramics. His ceramic work has been shown in various exhibitions and galleries. Gordon was born on the West coast but raised in Palisades Park, right outside of New York City, his current home.
To contact Gordon: call 212.475.3550 or fax 212.475.5724. To see Gordon's Industrial design work: www.grpd.com
Gordon signs most of his work GRPerry (some of his earlier work GRP)
The Gordon Perry Studio is located at 121 West 3rd Street Suite E, New York, NY 10012.
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