Jacqueline Dee Parker:

Open House in the Memory Palace

oct 3 - 26, 2023

FIRST WEDNESDAY OPENING: oct 4, FROM 6 - 9PM

ARTICULATE ARTIST TALK: SUNDAY, oct 8, AT 4PM.

NORMAL GALLERY HOURS: TUE - SUN, 12PM - 6PM

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A mixed media painter and 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 lives.

Building a memory palace is a way of recalling what one wishes not to forget. In the context of my work, it serves as a metaphor for interrogation of remembered spaces. As Gaston Bachelard explains in The Poetics Of Space, an inhabited space transcends its geometrical constraints, becoming a container in which past, present and future may collectively reside. Such an inclusive and emotional sense of space has long informed my practice. Source materials include antique and vintage papers from music, literature and other ephemera. These chosen fragments of lived experience reference a personal lineage as well as my esteem for the analog culture that is rapidly dematerializing from all human life.
-- Jacqueline Dee Parker

Parker was born in New York City and raised in New Haven, CT. She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA in Creative Writing/Painting & Drawing from Louisiana State University. Parker served as an instructor at Louisiana State University for nearly three decades, teaching in the Department of English before joining the Painting and Drawing faculty in the School of Art. Prior to life in Louisiana, she lived and worked as a freelance graphic layout artist in New York City, Boston, and Detroit. Parker’s poems appear in literary journals and anthologies and her collage paintings and drawings are included in private, public, corporate and museum collections. Ann Connelly Fine Art (LA) and Devin Borden Gallery (TX) represent her work and she is an artist member of the Baton Rouge Gallery Center for Contemporary Art. Parker 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. She lives in Baton Rouge, LA with her husband, cellist Dennis Parker.

This exhibition is presented alongside the latest works from Paulo Dufour, James Flynn, and Michael w. Howes. All works from these artists are on view, free of charge, during regular gallery hours (12 - 6 p.m., Tue - Sun) from Oct 3 - 26, 2023.