Sherry Parker

www.sherryparkerart.com 

        

“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 in New York in the late Sixties where she was a player in Ray Johnson's Correspondence School, and was seduced by “the addictive magic of collage and collaboration.” She has been working in the collage medium since 1987 and has been exhibited in galleries in New York, Santa Fe, Seattle, Pasadena, Portland, San Francisco, Berkeley and throughout Northern California.

 

In the artist’s words: “Collage is a rush for me – from start to finish – an adventure, a happening.  CHANCE is my muse.  

 

“What excites me about this medium are the ideas that flow from chance: the serendipitous discovery of "found" materials, the random (unconscious) selection process, the fortuitous mistakes, the bringing together of disparate pieces to begin the formation of order out of chaos. At a certain point when this "thing" starts to take shape, my mind kicks in to resolve what's happening. I call this process ‘orchestrated chance.’

 

"Through collage, I address the puzzle of life. My work reflects my playfully irreverent response to – or perhaps refuge from – the 'furious folly' of these times. This can be seen in unexpected and nonsensical imagery, fifties iconography (my comfort years), deconstruction and humanization of machines, and in anthropomorphic hybrids. My work is my way of softening the world around me and making my peace with it."

 

Parker earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Occidental College in Los Angeles and a graduate degree in French Literature from the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.