Presentation
Born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1968, Erik Parker lives and works in New York. Erik Parker is a self-appointed archivist of postwar New York Art, with an interest extending to music and performance. His paintings, which resemble drawings, are mostly made up of words: elaborate litanies of name, of people, of places and movements both familiar and famous, that evoke an era or a scene.
Parker paints organisation charts, maps, thorough lists of famous artists around the world, curators, gallery owners, artists, musicians, poets, drug dealers, pimps and famous people that animated the second half of the previous century. The various names are individually enclosed in a cocoon that, seen as a group creates a type of link rich in detail, an original plot in which an expressive strenght extends beyond the work of art, deliberately using “naif" false style.
In his paintings, each element is linked to another, or descends from another, his works are similar to some amusing family trees. Already sanctioned in the pages of the New York Times as one of the most interesting young New York artists, Erik Parker has created for this exhibition 5 oils on canvas of large dimensions and a series of drawings.
Exhibitions dedicated to Erik Parker
End To End Gallery
Cozy Up
From January 30, 2024 to February 27, 2024
End To End Gallery
Happy Holidays 2023
From December 20, 2023 to January 1, 2024
End To End Gallery
Red Dot Miami | Art Basel 2023 - Booth 408
From November 30, 2023 to December 5, 2023
End To End Gallery
All Treats, No Tricks
From September 24, 2022 to October 29, 2022
End To End Gallery
End to End Gallery at Artexpo Dallas 2022
From September 9, 2022 to September 15, 2022
End To End Gallery
End to End Gallery at Art San Diego 2022
From August 30, 2022 to September 5, 2022
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Who is the artist?
Born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1968, Erik Parker lives and works in New York. Erik Parker is a self-appointed archivist of postwar New York Art, with an interest extending to music and performance. His paintings, which resemble drawings, are mostly made up of words: elaborate litanies of name, of people, of places and movements both familiar and famous, that evoke an era or a scene.
Parker paints organisation charts, maps, thorough lists of famous artists around the world, curators, gallery owners, artists, musicians, poets, drug dealers, pimps and famous people that animated the second half of the previous century. The various names are individually enclosed in a cocoon that, seen as a group creates a type of link rich in detail, an original plot in which an expressive strenght extends beyond the work of art, deliberately using “naif" false style.
In his paintings, each element is linked to another, or descends from another, his works are similar to some amusing family trees. Already sanctioned in the pages of the New York Times as one of the most interesting young New York artists, Erik Parker has created for this exhibition 5 oils on canvas of large dimensions and a series of drawings.
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