Pearl Fryar was born on December 4,1939 and is an American topiary artist that lives in Bishopville, South Carolina.
10 Facts About Pearl Fryar
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Pearl Fryar was born on December 4,1939, in Clinton, North Carolina, to a sharecropper family.
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Pearl Fryar served in the military and was in the Korean War.
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Pearl Fryar began working in his yard to prove his white neighbors wrong with "throwaway" plants rescued from the compost pile at local nurseries and received the 'Yard of the Month' in 1985.
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Around 1988, Pearl Fryar began trimming the evergreen plants around his yard into unusual shapes.
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Pearl Fryar's living sculptures are astounding feats of artistry and horticulture.
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In 2006, the documentary A Man Named Pearl Fryar was produced by Scott Galloway and Brent Pierson about his work.
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Pearl Fryar's garden contains over 400 individual plants and is integrated with "junk art" sculptures.
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The aesthetics of Pearl Fryar's work are a departure from traditional topiary work and are considered abstract, inventive, and free-form.
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Pearl Fryar's position is funded by a $50,000 Central Carolina Community Foundation grant.