Lucinda Parker

Lucinda Parker creates dynamic paintings inspired by and abstracted from natural forms. Her latest exhibition further explores her interest in the many facets of Mt. Hood as an artistic and natural inspiration. The work presents many views of the mountain in Parker's abstract vocabulary, offering unique perspectives of its geologic structures and the atmospheric effects that often frame the monolithic peak. As with previous work, her focus remains on the handling of the paint itself: the textures, layers and volumes that create what Parker terms the “muscular boldness” of an image. Parker is engaged by the often unexpected fusion of texture, gesture and geometry that evolves in her paintings.

Originally, from Boston, Lucinda Parker received a BA jointly from Reed College and the Pacific Northwest College of Art, in Portland, OR, and an MFA from Pratt Institute, New York. Her work has been exhibited at numerous one-person shows throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationally. The Portland Art Museum honored her with a mid-career retrospective in 1995, and the Boise Art Museum presented a one-person exhibition of her work in 2002. She was also included in the Bonnie Bronson Fellows twenty-year retrospective at Lewis and Clark College, Portland. Parker’s work is part of collections throughout the Northwest. Major public collections include the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University, Reed College, the Portland Art Museum and the Seattle Art Museum. Public commissions can be found at the Oregon Convention Center, Oregon State University and the University of Oregon, and a federal courthouse in Bakersfield, California, among others. In 2013, she was among the first artists-in-residents selected by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation to work for a month in Captiva, Florida. Currently she is working on a commission through the Washington State Arts Commission for Lake Roosevelt School in Grand Coulee, Washington.

You look at the painting to see the mountain, and you look at the mountain to see the painting

November 5 – 28, 2015

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