My life reflects a kaleidoscope of visual fragments and sensory evaluations. I am virtually everywhere, changing constantly. Yet I express wonder when I contemplate the miracle of human consciousness as I hurl myself against the passage of time. The concepts of microcosm/macrocosm, reality/illusion seep into my work and play with the intention of illuminating matter into the poetry of visual dimension.

Implied motion has become the signature trademark in my recent work. There’s always the edge of balance/fragility. The moment, though ever fleeting, re- emerges as a memory that replays as a movie. Seeing it expand and contract, navigating through space, my work speaks metaphorically as poetry. I conceive the vision of that moment becoming a “still”, collapsing time into a particular instant, frozen as a sculptural image, an icon to memory.

My thoughts run the spectrum from the absurdity of the accident of birth and the happenstance of circumstance to the capacity for human learning and reflection.

I engage in transforming the ordinary into the unexpected, contradicting my initial inclination for order by considering a novel point of view or scale to refresh perception as a breakthrough to a new reality, bringing myself clarity with each new vision.

Perci Chester's work has been shown in solo and group shows, within museums and galleries, both nationally and internationally. She is the recipient of public commissions for large-scale outdoor works including Poriya Hospital Complex, Tiberias, Israel, North Beach Public Housing, San Francisco, CA., Ella Racing the Wind, 2006, Galleria Edina, MN (a granite sculpture with water feature) and Gyr Family Cycle, 2009 (a three-element stainless steel sculpture) installed in Promenade Park, Edina, MN.

Her sculpture has won several awards, including the Dayton Hudson, General Mills & Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant. The nature of her work stretches itself over a variety of mediums, as it is seen as a constant development, often expressing multiple forms in a single work.

Since graduating Washington University in St. Louis, BFA and Rhode Island School of Design, MFA and MAT, Ms. Chester has been an exhibiting artist and educator. Her involvement includes both colleges around the country as well as schools and community based arts programs. She has held visiting-artist positions at Macalister College, St. Paul as well as Alvarado Art Workshop, San Francisco and instructor positions at San Francisco City College and Minneapolis College of Art and Design.