ID#:
2010.0047.000001
Description:
Lucinda Parker
Born 1942
Snags, 2006
Acrylic on canvas
Courtesy Linda Hodges Gallery
Originally from Boston, Lucinda Parker attended Reed College in Portland, OR. After receiving her Master of Fine Arts in 1968 from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, the artist returned to Portland. Parker has been teaching at the Pacific Northwest College of Art since 1972. Known for her virtuoso paintings and passion for process, Parker creates both modestly scaled and large commissioned works for public spaces that reveal her intimate relationship to the natural world. In Snags, tree trunk—like forms suffused in golden light are born from the artist's imagination and inspired by hikes in the woods. Parker often uses a spatula rather than a brush to apply heavy impasto passages of acrylic paint that coalesce into expressive architectural and organic forms.
States the artist: "In the woods, a snag is a dead standing or leaning tree, often silvery and abstractly contorted, especially at higher altitude. Owls and woodpeckers love them. This painting is cubistic and volumetric — sort of like plumbing. I tilted the horizon line behind the tree. I love painting back and forth between figure and ground until the whole thing is active and vigorous."
Born 1942
Snags, 2006
Acrylic on canvas
Courtesy Linda Hodges Gallery
Originally from Boston, Lucinda Parker attended Reed College in Portland, OR. After receiving her Master of Fine Arts in 1968 from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, the artist returned to Portland. Parker has been teaching at the Pacific Northwest College of Art since 1972. Known for her virtuoso paintings and passion for process, Parker creates both modestly scaled and large commissioned works for public spaces that reveal her intimate relationship to the natural world. In Snags, tree trunk—like forms suffused in golden light are born from the artist's imagination and inspired by hikes in the woods. Parker often uses a spatula rather than a brush to apply heavy impasto passages of acrylic paint that coalesce into expressive architectural and organic forms.
States the artist: "In the woods, a snag is a dead standing or leaning tree, often silvery and abstractly contorted, especially at higher altitude. Owls and woodpeckers love them. This painting is cubistic and volumetric — sort of like plumbing. I tilted the horizon line behind the tree. I love painting back and forth between figure and ground until the whole thing is active and vigorous."
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