Lucinda Parker
Installation View | November 2017
Installation View | November 2017
Installation View | November 2017
Installation View | November 2017
Installation View | November 2017
Installation View | November 2017
Installation View | November 2017
Scrutinize the Peak
2017
acrylic on canvas
79 x 61 inches
The Toe of Eliot Glacier
2017
acrylic on canvas
78 x 60 inches
Columnar Eratic
2017
acrylic on canvas
63 x 49 inches
Holding Pond
2017
acrylic on canvas
61 x 51 inches
Orchard
2017
acrylic on canvas
37 x 55.5 inches
Mountainhood
2017
acrylic on canvas
21 x 45 inches
Invention of Scree
2017
acrylic on canvas
31 x 22.5 inches
Precipice
2017
acrylic on canvas
23 x 31 inches
Olympics
2017
acrylic on canvas
21 x 45 inches
Ledge Above Banks Lake
2017
acrylic on canvas
25 x 20 inches
Crown Jewels
2017
acrylic on canvas
12 x 27 inches
Growth Boundary
2017
acrylic on canvas
12 x 27 inches
Barge Music
2017
acrylic on canvas
13 x 23 inches
In Lucinda Parker’s work, we see a unique intersection of abstraction and representation. Her style is energetic, muscular, gestural and layered. A primarily abstract painter for years, Parker takes her form building skills in abstraction and applies them to the landscape. Recently she has focused her eye on Mt. Hood and its environs as her subject, often encased in skies and clouds of many colors and textures. In her November show Knowledge Is Not Our Enemy, Parker continues her exploration of the mountain, sky, land, and water to wondrous, arresting effects.
The Portland painter talks about her career as a primarily abstract painter and her latest, Cubist-inspired work.
Lucinda Parker has been a painter in Portland for almost 50 years. She studied painting in the heyday of Abstract Expressionism at the Museum Art School (now Pacific Northwest College of Art). After becoming known for paintings with big bold gestures, in recent years she has allowed figurative imagery into her work.