Biography
Katherine Parker was born in Durham, North Carolina and grew up in Richmond, Virginia. She studied art history and painting at Virginia Commonwealth University and then moved to NYC in 1981, receiving her MFA from Columbia University in 1983. Parker is known for her large, vividly painted canvases which are characterized by layers of scumbled and abraded oil paint. The final pieces contain the record of the painting process and afford evocative clues to the viewer of the layers and erasures beneath the surface. She studied with Milton Resnick, Louise Fishman and Irving Sandler and was influenced by the rigors and temperament of the New York School.Parker's paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the NY, NJ area including The Hunterdon Museum, The Newark Museum, PS 1 MOMA, The Jersey City Museum, Spanierman Modern Gallery, Heidi Cho Gallery, Gary Snyder Gallery, and the Accola Littlejohn Gallery. She is currently represented by Spanierman Modern in NYC.
Parker lives with her husband and her two children in Hoboken NJ.
She also maintains her studio there.
Essays
Parker's work has been the subject of many critical essays.CV
Solo Exhibitions
| 2014 | chants/chance |
| 2010 | Watermark |
| 2008 | Days of Winter |
| 2007 | Paintings |
| 2005 | Refuge Means of Escape |
| 2004 | Paintings Material Witness Paintings Self-Evidence |
| 2003 | States of Union |
| 2000 | Katherine Parker and Larry Deyab Paintings |
| 1993 | Paintings Psalms |
| 1991 | Stigmata Paintings |
| 1990 | New Work |
| 1989 | Recent Paintings |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2013 | Waterways II Summer Selections Thirteen Contemporary Artists |
| 2012 | Summer Selections Color Works Modern and Contemporary Painting Fifteen Contemporary Artists |
| 2011 | January Gallery Selections Architectural Digest Show |
| 2009 | Mark of the Hand |
| 2006 | Group Show WAR SHOW |
| 2004 | Counterpoise |
| 2003 | After Matisse/Picasso Color Complexities 100 NJ Artists Make Prints |
| 2002 | 500 Works on Paper Off the Wall Summer Show |
| 2001 | 21st Suffragettes Group Show |
| 2000 | North and South |
| 1998 | Mixed Medea Pay Per It Field Work Field Work |
| 1997 | 4 Artists |
| 1996 | Sign Language |
| 1995 | Inaugural Show Inadmissible Evidence Innovative Printmaking |
| 1994 | Tenth Anniversary Show Sign Language 20x20 |
| 1993 | Maximizations Love and Chaos Walls at the Hall |
| 1992 | Gallery Artists: New Work Urban Alchemy New Jersey Arts Annual Art Auction |
| 1991 | Works on Paper Review Preview 5 Contemporary Art on Canvas New American Talent Urban Alchemy Portrait of a City |
| 1990 | Introductions ’90 Maximum Diversity New Jersey Arts Annual New American Talent Drawing: Step One Annual Juried Show |
Honors & Awards
| 2009 | Edward Albee Foundation Fellowship |
| 2006 | Cover Art, Hislop's Guide to the Arts |
| 1993 | New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Fellowship RCCP |
| 1992 | New Jersey Percent for Art, Purchase Award |
| 1992 | Organization of Independent Artists, Curatorial Award |
| 1991 | Yaddo Residency Fellowship |
EDUCATION
| 1983 | MFA (Painting) Columbia University, New York, NY |
| 1980 | BFA (Art History) Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA |
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Carrington, Coleman, Sloman and Blumenthal, Dallas, TX |
Selected Bibliography
| 2013 |
Waterways II opens at Heather Gaudio Fine Art, |
| 2012 | Summer Selections, Martha Campbell |
| 2010 | Spanierman Modern Is Exhibiting Katherine Parker |
2009 | The Mark of the Hand, review, Cynthia Nadelman, ARTnews, June 2009 |
| 2007 | War in the Last Five Years, Artists Respond to the Last Five Years, catalog essay, Kristen Accola, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Nov. 5-March 25, p.3 |
| 2006 | Sainte Claire, cover art, Hudson River Art, 2006, volume 5 publisher, Peter Barton |
| 2005 | Refuge, Marilyn Rosenberg, catalog essay, Katherine Parker-Refuge, Heidi Cho Gallery, Rich Fog Publishing, copyright, 2005 |
| 2003 | Two friends Sharing an Artistic Connection, Carol Macgowan, Newsday, June 1, p.38 |
| 1995 | Inadmissible Evidence, William Zimmer |
| 1994 | Sign Language, William Zimmer |
| 1992 | Strength in Abstraction, William Zimmer |
| 1991 | Behold the Haunting on Canvas, Carole Falk Artists Seek to Extract Objects of Beauty from Urban Blight, Eileen Watkins |
| 1990 | Painful News, Few Artists Offer Easy Images, Reiko Matsuo A Gallery That’s Almost a Museum, Vivienne Raynor New American Talent, Sixth Exhibition, Laura Trippi |
| 1989 | Galleries Paint a Brighter Picture for Women, Roberta Smith |