{"id":346,"date":"2009-03-20T10:37:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T17:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/03\/lucinda_parker_chaos_in_walden\/"},"modified":"2009-03-20T10:37:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T17:37:19","slug":"lucinda_parker_chaos_in_walden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/03\/lucinda_parker_chaos_in_walden.html","title":{"rendered":"Lucinda Parker: Chaos in Walden Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stratocumulus.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/stratocumulus.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" \/><\/span>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.garyfaigin.com\/\">Gary Faigin<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artdish.com\/post\/2009\/02\/Lucinda-Parker-at-Linda-Hodges-Gallery.aspx\">Artdish<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><font size=\"2\" face=\"tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"><a href=\"mailto:http:\/\/www.lindahodgesgallery.com\/artists\/parker.html\">Lucinda Parker<\/a><br \/>\nspeaks of taking her inspiration from nature, but Thoreau would have<br \/>\nhad her thrown out of Walden Pond for disturbing the peace.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Her big, noisy paintings are celebrations of energy, movement, and conflict.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>To the extent that they are inspired by the natural world, it is the realm of tsunamis, windstorms, icebergs, and waterfalls <span>&nbsp;<\/span>&#8211; force colliding with force.<span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><font size=\"2\" face=\"tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Go, Gary. I love that lead. <\/p>\n<p>Based in Portland, Oregon, the painter in question is well into the third decade of her career. A<\/font>cross time it&#8217;s easy to see relationships that weren&#8217;t<br \/>\nclear in the beginning.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/costco\/Desktop\/stratocumulus.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/costco\/Desktop\/14735-148485-large.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Although Parker had a brief flirtation with decorative effects,<br \/>\nher strength is power painting: broad arcs of form crashing, folding or<br \/>\ncurving into each other, cutting through space like knives through<br \/>\nthick batter. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Her work bears a relationship to the late Portland<br \/>\npainter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.askart.com\/askart\/m\/carl_a_morris\/carl_a_morris.aspx\">Carl Morris<\/a>: his sweeping arcs without his muddy color. And<br \/>\nlike the paintings of <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=howard+hodgkins&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;ei=RtjDSaTdEJGUsAPFy7TiBg&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=image_result_group&amp;resnum=1&amp;ct=title\">Howard Hodgkin<\/a>, hers<br \/>\ncontinue over the frame, refusing to acknowledge a beginning or end.\n<\/p>\n<p>But Parker is blunter than either Morris or Hodgkin. At the<br \/>\ncore of her abstraction is an interest in generative life processes,<br \/>\nwhich she presents in all their sour, messy glory. <\/p>\n<p>When yellow hits black in a Hodgkin painting, the effect can be delicate. When the same colors meet in Parker&#8217;s spaces, that<br \/>\nconvergence has a blunt and battering force. <\/p>\n<p>She had a solo show last month at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lindahodgesgallery.com\/index.html\">Linda Hodges Gallery<\/a> in Seattle. In Portland, she&#8217;s represented by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurarusso.com\/artists\/parker_l.html\">Laura Russo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Gary Faigin on Artdish: Lucinda Parker speaks of taking her inspiration from nature, but Thoreau would have had her thrown out of Walden Pond for disturbing the peace.&nbsp; Her big, noisy paintings are celebrations of energy, movement, and conflict.&nbsp; To the extent that they are inspired by the natural world, it is the realm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}