Jacqueline Dee Parker

Ars Poetica 16 : contemporary collage

2023

Jacqueline Dee Parker’s collages are interdisciplinary in approach and concept. Her materials include antique literature and music books and other ephemera. Just as words, sounds, an...

Jacqueline Dee Parker’s collages are interdisciplinary in approach and concept. Her materials include antique literature and music books and other ephemera. Just as words, sounds, and images rooted in memory may trigger the composition of a poem, collage is a mode of perception that prompts integration of different sorts of accumulated language. Fragments of lived experience are the bricks and mortar the artist uses to build new spaces informed by time’s passage. Early life in the home of an architect and a violinist shaped Jacqueline Dee Parker’s aesthetic. Exposure to the art of architecture encouraged interest in spatial relationships, taught her to read elevations and visualize their 3-D intentions, and, at construction sites, to appreciate the evolution of concept to form. Music played through and where words ended, roused layers of emotional response, and altered the sense of place and time. Together, these ingredients fostered an affinity for abstraction and design. Jacqueline Dee Parker's "Ars Poetica" series is inspired from the poem of the same name from Roman poet...

Jacqueline Dee Parker’s collages are interdisciplinary in approach and concept. Her materials include antique literature and music books and other e...

Jacqueline Dee Parker’s collages are interdisciplinary in approach and concept. Her materials include antique literature and music books and other e...

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Large areas of orange and blue fill this abstract mixed media painting. Pieces of painted flat and corrugated paper sit near the center. This painting is a part...

Genre: Contemporary Subject: Abstract Medium: Mixed Media, Collage Surface: Paper Country: Spain Dimensions: 14" x 11" Dimensions w/Frame: 15" x 12" Alejandra Icaza Born in Bilbao, S...

Untitled, Undated - Mixed Media, British Abstraction - Sandra Blow (Abstract) Sandra Blow RA (1925-2006) pioneered British abstraction in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries...