LEE ANN SEABURG PERRY

Sculptor LeeAnn Seaburg Perry enhances the beauty of stone with minimalist carving, shaping the stone to create just a hint of human form without destroying its natural shape and texture, working in a sculotural tradition that can be traced back to Michaelangelo. Her work displays a palpable love of stone - its translucence, its striated depths and marbleized color. She carves her stone with the traditional tolls of stone carvers: chisel, hammers and rasps, with the addition of a small cutting wheel and diamond sandpaper pads, creating textural patterns and highly polished surface areas which enhance the natural form, much of which is left untouched. Most of her works are small, exquisite pieces on swivel bases allowing for placement in a number of intimate locations in one's decor. (continued at the bottom)

Perry works with a variety of stone, including marble, sandstone, soapstone, alabaster and others, with marble being her favorite. For her marble she travels to Danby, Vermont to personally ride deep into the earth and hand pick blocks of marble, have them loaded into packing crates and truck them back to her studio in Washington State, where they are uncrated and exposed to the light for first time since the Middle Cambrian period 600 million years ago.

Lee Ann Seaburg studied sculpture at Lewis and Clark College in Oregon before receiving her Master of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute in New York City. She exhibits her work throughout the Pacific northwest and Rocky Mountain region.

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