The Fertile Images of Angela Perko — Now on View in Downtown Santa Barbara’s Sullivan Goss Gallery

Late-Blooming Artist Finds Fruitful Inspiration in ‘The Place of Hidden Things’

Late-Blooming Artist Finds Fruitful Inspiration in ‘The Place of Hidden Things’

By Roger Durling | August 11, 2022

Angela Perko poses in front of Sullivan Goss, where her newest body of work is currently on view and continues to weave mytho-historical themes and iconography together with brilliant color and intricate design. | Credit: Ingrid Bostrom

Art’s responsibility has always been to interpret experiences during trying times; it’s a worthy vessel for our collective remembrances, as well as our trauma. Could there be a more prescient and urgent display of artistic expression in Santa Barbara than Angela Perko’s current show at Sullivan Goss Gallery, The Place of Hidden Things? I doubt it.

Perko’s exemplary, focused, and cohesive collection of paintings speak loudly about pressing issues like the environment, and, most vividly, the challenges to women’s reproductive rights. Her visual and very sensitive handling of these subjects is portrayed in an enduring and classical manner recalling ancient art.

“I’ve always painted in a timeless fashion, but these works make contemporary statements,” the painter tells me. It is a staggering body of work by an artist at her most mature, disciplined, and visionary.

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