“Your work has such uniqueness of expression.”

Myrna Orsini — director of Monarch Art Center, in Washington State

“The work of Perci Chester exposes that inner understanding…the integration of purpose and possibility, a directness and humor, light and profound.”

"I love the thought of Odalisque held captive by the shadow of her existence...you have a wild mind, really wonderful, brilliant Perci.”

Christine Taylor Patten — writer and artist, Taos, New Mexico

The amazing thing about human existence is that the world is intelligible. Even in times of absolute chaos, we maintain a unique relationship to our physical surroundings. The objects in it are more than lumps of matter. Given sufficient attention, they communicate to us. They disclose something understandable.

These sculptures exist at an abstract midpoint of this disclosure. They mean to interrupt the process of recognition before it is complete.

Alexander Lawrence Bender — graduate in Philosophy and Classics, Kenyon College and Oxford University

Part of the engaging aspect of Chester’s works stems from the interesting way they can be read as figurative art, even when our initial sense of the sculptures is abstract...Chester prefers to work in between genres of form, a decision that enhances the intellectual presence of her work as well as intensifying the long debate between abstraction and representation. Chester’s sense of artifice is often based upon form as it appears in the real world; however, she treats form as an open-ended inquiry, searching for the moment when we suddenly recognize that her composition is to be read conventionally, as a realistic treatment of how she sees.

Jonathan Goodman — critic/writer based in NYC whose articles and reviews have appeared in ARTnews, Art in America and Sculpture.

As a perpetual learner and an ardent observer of my surroundings, I am confronted by notions of the fragility of time and the mystery of being. My work inhabits this.

Perci Chester