Total Arts Gallery - Les Perhacs

Les Perhacs

Les Perhacs - At the age of six, he began welding beside his Hungarian born father, a master machinist and inventor. This structured work inspired organization and independent thinking. During his studies at Pratt University in New York, he embraced the Bauhaus principle of "form follows function." Instruction from Willem de Kooning, Buckminster Fuller and David Smith, among others, provided a solid foundation for his lifelong career in sculpture.
For 30 years, Perhacs has been casting bronzes and sculpting stone to create animal forms. His designs reflect his interest in the spirit and poetry of the animal versus its duplication. His sculpture has been collected by numerous museum and corporations in Washington including the Whatcorn Museum, as well as the San Diego International Airport. He has enjoyed membership with the Artists of America, National Sculpture Society, Who's Who in American Art and Contemporary Western Artists.

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Steel Study #1

Circle Control

Sleeping Owl

Jumping Frog

	Spike Ress - Although Ress was born in New York, he has spent most of his life in the southwestern U.S. In the 1970's he left his career in commercial art to pursue fine art full-time. Over the past twenty years Spike Ress has achieved a national reputation for his distinctive use of the watercolor medium. He now makes his home in southern Utah, surrounded by the canyon and high plateau country he most enjoys painting. “It is my desire to take the medium of watercolor well beyond its secondary status into the realm of truly fine painting, pushing its traditional limits”.
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