jacqueline dee parker

house of cards

a virtual reception will be held via our facebook and youtube pages on june 2nd. Follow us at BRGallery for updates and images!

the in-person FIRST WEDNESDAY OPENING RECEPTION & artICULATE aRTIST tALK have been cancelled for this exhibition due to risks associated with the covid-19 pandemic. the gallery will be open during regular business hours (Tu - Su, 12pm - 6pm) for individuals or groups under 25 people. social distancing and masks are required.

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.

“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 retain music, conversation, games, day and night dreams, etc. My materials include antique literature and music books and other sourced 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.” – 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.

Parker’s exhibition is supported in part by an Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grant, a program of South Arts

Website: www.jacquelinedeeparker.com
Instagram: @jacquelinedeeparker

This exhibition is presented alongside the latest works from Brad Jensen, & David Scott Smith. All works from these artists are on view, free of charge, during normal gallery hours (12 - 6 p.m., Tue - Sun) from June 1 through July 1.