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
Born in New York City and raised in New Haven, Connecticut, Parker’s creative life bridges literature and visual art. She earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA in Creative Writing/Painting, and Drawing from Louisiana State University. Her vintage paper collages and mixed-media paintings have been widely exhibited and are held in private, public, corporate, and museum collections. As a poet, her work appears in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including Atlanta Review, The Southern Review, and Chelsea, among others. She is the recipient of a 2007 Artist Fellowship from the Louisiana State Division of the Arts and a 2021 Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grant from South Arts. Reflecting her interdisciplinary practice, Parker taught for three decades at Louisiana State University, first in the Department of English and later in the School of Art. Before settling in Louisiana, she lived and worked as a freelance graphic layout artist in New York City, Boston, and Detroit. Her work is represented by Ann Connolly Fine Art (LA), Devin Borden (TX) and Picture Room (NY), and she is an artist member of the Baton Rouge Gallery Center for Contemporary Art. Parker lives in Baton Rouge with her husband, cellist and sculptor Dennis Parker, and their puppy, Pipilotte.
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 unstretched canvas
20" x 20"