Mummified bird parts, copper tubing, lizard heads, rubber tires, mice molars, steel, burned tortillas, cat hair, glass rods, twine, bone dust and clay — these and other quirky materials are seamlessly, even organically combined in Sarah Perry's sculptures, which one writer described as "a marriage of Charles Darwin and P.T. Barnum." Perry's works explore the mysteries of life and death, decay and rebirth. Using discarded junk that she finds in the Nevada desert, she fuses elements that draw our attention to the fact that like it or not, nature and culture are evolving hand-in-hand. One of her most well-known works is "Route 40: Bill," a remarkably realistic, 700-pound gorilla made from discarded rubber truck tires wrapped around a steel armature. Key for Perry is the erasure of her own artistic hand in these works, which she does by eliminating traces of glue, seams or abrupt transitions. Her newest sculptures are formed from bones of varying shapes and sizes. Here, Perry plays with the idea of how knowledge is encoded within the body (as DNA) as well as in culture. Perry earned a BFA from Otis Art Institute Parsons School of Design in 1983.