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Something Else (2022)

Steve Locke and Jeff Perrott in conversation

The artists discuss Perrott's method, form and color in the work, and painting as a means of imaginative invention for viewers. Conducted for the catalogue 'Construction/New Construction,' published by LaMontagne Gallery, 2023.

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What’s Next for Aesthetic Inferentialism? From the Possible to the Probable (2021)

By Jeff Perrott

Written in response to the seminar 'From Inferential Art to Aesthetic Inferentialism' given by J.P. Caron at the New Centre for Research and Practice, 2021.

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Models of Light: Brian Zink’s Chromatic Structures (2021)

By Jeff Perrott

I examine Brain Zink's surprising move into figurative, light-drenched space in his new series of hard-edged colored Plexiglas assemblages exhibited in 'Chromatic Structures' at Howard Yezerski Gallery.

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What Democracy? (2020)

By Jeff Perrott

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Victoria Shen (Evic Shen) at Boston City Hall (2019)

By Jeff Perrott

My materialist take on Victoria Shen's powerful and immersive noise performance, and its embodied critique of its Brutalist stage, the Mezzanine of Paul Rudolph's Boston City Hall.

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Steve Locke’s Family Pictures (2016)

By Jeff Perrott

I look deeply and personally into the implications of Steve Locke's powerful photographic works, that critically frame lynching cards as marks of historical, persistent, and current racism in the US.

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Joe Wardwell’s Party (2014)

By Jeff Perrott

Reflection on the exhibition 'Joe Wardwell: Party Over', at LaMontagne Gallery, 2014.

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writing About jeff

essay: Random Walks in Endless Fields (2010)

by Francine Koslow Miller

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essay: Empty Canvas (2009)

by Francine Koslow Miller

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essay: Nature of Things (2005)

by Francine Koslow Miller

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