Perry
‘gets real’
with
sculpture

AFTER BEING confronted by
Bruce Perry’s shockingly re-
alistic nude figures, a friend

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23 — Wednesday, May 10, 1989 — North Shore News

Fifth Ave. wins semi-finals

NORTH VANCOUVER’S Paui
Townsend led his- band Fifth
Avenue to win the 1989 Pacific
Region semi-final of the Alcan/
C8C Radio jazz competition.

“Every year it more and
more difficult to c the best
group,’ said judge Fred Stride.
“Vancouver has so many
young jazz musicians and a grow-
ing audience to support them.”

Fifth Avenue members include:
trumpet and piano player Grad

’ Turner, saxophonist Bill Abbott,

bass player Shane Fawkes, piano
and trumpet player Ai Matheson
and drummer Townsend.

Fifth Avenue fly to Montreal to . :
compete in the finals against four © FIFTH Avenue band leader Paul

remarked, “they look like
people, not sculptures.”

This is the exact response Perry
likes to hear.

other regional winners from
across Canada during the 1989
Montreal International Jazz Festi-
val, june 30 to July 9.

Townsend ...band to compete in
Montreal. _

cord with CBC Enterprises, and to
perform as the opening group at

“4 want people to look at my
work and see how believable it
is,” says the Toronto-born
sculptor, who goes to extreme
lengths to make his striking human
figures anatomically correct.

Now living in Deep Cove, Perry,
43, took a course in anatomy to
better understand the intricacies of
the human body.

His latest work, a collection of
bronze nudes, stands before a
whispy blue sky painted by his
italian-born wife, Liberia Marcuzzi
in The Landing gallery.

Perry is, in short, a man with a
mission.

Having a strong vision in the '
type of art he wanted to create, specialty
Perry put his architecture career
on hold to study bronze foundry at
the Ontario College of Art eight
years ago.

Says Perry: “‘It was a program
where you had to know exacily
what you wanted to do. My vision,
which I’ve had for a long time,
was highly realistic athletic
figures.”

Working from live models,
Perry's pint-sized nudes are all in
the midst of some form of action.
‘None are stagnant or still. Some
kneel with arms stretched behind
them, exposing each and every
muscle, Others are frozen in the
middle of a handstand, one leg
wavering in the air, the other,
flexed and sinewy.

In order to lend his figures a
keen sense of realism, Perry

tation. “I want to create some-
thing that really excites the viewer
so that they can actually see the
dancer, the gymnast — so that the
sculptures are not small any more
but life-size.”

EVELYN
JACOB

feature writer

Perry's fascination with the
human form began with his being
an avid sportsman, both in track
and field and skiing. ‘I love
athletics,” he confesses. ‘I love
watching the body in motion.”

CAPTURING INTRICATE details of the human form in action is a
of sculptor Bruce Perry (inset). His current exhibit at The
Landing gallery opened last week. ;

They have a chance to win a

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The feeling of muscles and joints
moving around fuelled his passion.
“The feeling of the body inside
out is really what I'rn after. It’s like

a dancer feeling from the inside

the next move she’s going to
make. When people look at my
work they can fee! that, too. It’s
like when you watch a good
movie, you actually become the
actor.

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