Frieze New York: Grayson Perry: Ceramics and Prints

Frieze Viewing Room is a web-based platform and mobile app which gives collectors an opportunity to explore Frieze New York virtually. Our display, and those of the other galleries due to attend the fair were published vitually via the platform.

Please note the viewing room is now closed. 

For the Frieze New York Viewing Room, and concurrently displayed in our London gallery, we presented Grayson Perry: Ceramics and Prints. The collection included early dishes and vases from the 1980s and '90s alongside Perry's more recent map-like prints. Like his public persona, these works exhibit contradictory traits of playful humour and vicious wit. In one of his Reith Lectures, Perry observed: 'We now have Bobos - bourgeois bohemians - so everybody has got a little bit of that artisty lifestyle in them now. We've accepted a lot of the things that were weird now are normal.' Much of his art responds to this state of affairs, celebrating weirdness with a post-modern jamboree of iconography and art historical reference. In addition to his reliance upon traditional pottery techniques of spinning and glazing, his vivid imagery and textual additions coalesce to produce a personal style which is colourful and highly recognisable.

Alongside this solo exhibition, we also presented a selection of curated gallery highlights online, including work by Ben Nicholson, William Scott, Leon Kossoff, Barbara Hepworth, Alexander Calder, Anthony Caro and Pablo Picasso.