JACQUELINE DEE PARKER
A mixed media painter and a poet, Jacqueline Dee Parker’s work is inspired by the correspondence between these art forms. She views collage as a mode of perception, and finds that it facilitates her exploration of language, history, and ephemera. Her work evolves as a visceral construction of psychic and emotional space. Her materials include antique literature and music books and the language of other accumulated ephemera. She is moved by this tactile evidence of human life, labor and culture, especially as it is rapidly disappearing from our daily life.
“In one of my favorite books, The Poetics of Space, philosopher Gaston Bachelard explains that an inhabited space transcends its geometrical constraints, that it becomes a container in which past, present and future reside. This inclusive and emotional sense of space has long informed my work, and the parameters imposed by the pandemic have intensified concerns. Remembered spaces retains music, conversation, games, day and night dreams, etc. My materials include antique literature and music books and other ephemera, and the process of collage allows for the integration of these different sorts of accumulated language. Fragments of lived experience are the bricks and mortar I use to build, constructing new spaces informed by time’s passage.” - Jacqueline Dee Parker
Jacqueline Dee Parker was born in New York City and raised in New Haven, CT. She presently lives in Louisiana, where teaches in the College of Art & Design at LSU. Her poems appear in literary journals and anthologies, including Cortland Review, The Southern Review, Chelsea, Spinning Jenny, and Eratio Poetry Journal, among others. Parker’s vintage paper collages and mixed media paintings are exhibited throughout the US and can be seen in private and corporate collections internationally. Devin Borden Gallery (TX) and Ann Connelly Fine Art (LA) represent her work, and she is an artist member of the Baton Rouge Gallery Center for Contemporary Art.
Website: www.jacquelinedeeparker.com
Instagram: @jacquelinedeeparker
Artist Member since 1994
BACHELOR OF ART, SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE
MASTER OF FINE ARTS (CREATIVE WRITING/PAINTING & DRAWING), LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
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Vintage Paper, Acrylic on Canvas
10.5" x 6"