Rachel Perry
b. 1962, Tokyo, Japan
from the artist:
“Bread tags, price stickers, tin foil and answering machine messages: these leftovers form a language of modern life. Through ritual and repetition I collect, accumulate and re-present the forgotten reminders of consumption. For this etching, I selected one of every different kind of bread tag from my collection, forming a taxonomy of plastic tabs organized by my own system, where none of these things is quite like the other.In choosing to work with these materials, I am documenting the world in which we live, mapping out environments in the hope of finding the beauty, humor and joy in everyday life.”
None of these things is quite like the other, photo-etching with aquatint and chine collé, 24 x 18 inches (image), 30 x 23 inches (sheet), 2012, edition 30
None of these things is quite like the other (detail), photo-etching with aquatint and chine collé, 24 x 18 inches (image), 30 x 23 inches (sheet), 2012, edition 30
Selected Collections
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Cleveland Clinic, Ohio
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, Florida
Deutsche Bank, New York
Dow Jones Corporation, New York
Girl’s Club Collection, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Harnett Museum of Art, Richmond, Virginia
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Archives, Boston, Massachusetts
Johnson & Johnson, New York
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Robert Lehman Art Center Collection, Andover, Massachusetts
Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
Wellington Management Company, Boston, Massachusetts
West Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania