Leslie
Parke
Tiger Lily
2006, oil on canvas, 60" x 70", $18,900 |
Leslie
Parke
GALLERY VII
While traditional representational paintings tend to act as "windows
on the world," Leslie Parke’s paintings use realistic
images to exert contemporary abstract principles, such as monumental
scale, frontality and a gesture that asserts the surface of a painting.
The paintings may depict flowers, water, trees and branches, but
they are about shapes, colors, space and light. "That being
said," Parke says, "by working with nature I am able to
reintroduce into my work something that is not possible in a purely
abstract painting, and that is the quality of light and place at
a particular moment." The recipient of numerous national and
international awards, Ms. Parke’s works have appeared in more
than fifty solo, group and juried shows the world over and hang
in the collections of nearly seventy museums and corporations. |
