SHERRY PARKERMixed Media Collage
“Parker’s diminutively-scaled works reflect her passion for the great masters of the collage medium – Schwitters, Ernst, Höch and Cornell – however, the particularity of her own vision emerges from its sources in beguiling feminine perspectives, dream language, keen compositional orderliness, and a rich new palette.”
– Stuart Denenberg, USART Expo, San Francisco
Sherry Parker was first introduced to collage and assemblage in New York in the late Sixties where she was a player in Ray Johnson's Correspondence School. She has been (actively) working in the collage medium since 1987. Her work, as described in an art review, "reflects an intense response to the poetics of a life suspended between the real and the surreal."
In the artist's words: "Collage is a happening. What excites me about this medium are the ideas which flow from chance, from a serendipitous discovery – and the spontaneous (frequently unconscious) combining of textures and images from objets trouvés and out-of-print materials."
Parker spent her professional career in advertising and marketing. For two decades, she was in account management with J Walter Thompson, D'Arcy, and DDB Needham. In 1990, she founded Parker Jones Marketing Research from which she retired in 2007 to pursue art full time.
Her work has been shown in galleries in New York, San Francisco, Berkeley, Napa, Seattle, Santa Fe, Sacramento, and Los Angeles.
Parker has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Occidental College in Los Angeles, and a graduate degree in French Literature from the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.
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