Lucinda Parker
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.