Biography
Katherine Parker was born in Durham, North Carolina and grew up in Richmond, Virginia. She studied art history and painting at Virginia Commonwealth University and then moved to NYC in 1981, receiving her MFA from Columbia University in 1983. Parker is known for her large, vividly painted canvases which are characterized by layers of scumbled and abraded oil paint. The final pieces contain the record of the painting process and afford evocative clues to the viewer of the layers and erasures beneath the surface. She studied with Milton Resnick, Louise Fishman and Irving Sandler and was influenced by the rigors and temperament of the New York School.
Parker's paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the NY, NJ area including The Hunterdon Museum, The Newark Museum, PS 1 MOMA, The Jersey City Museum, Spanierman Modern Gallery, Heidi Cho Gallery, Gary Snyder Gallery, and the Accola Littlejohn Gallery.
Parker lives with her husband and her two children in Hoboken NJ.
She also maintains her studio there.
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Katherine Parker was born in Durham, North Carolina and grew up in Richmond, Virginia. She studied art history and painting at Virginia Commonwealth University and then moved to NYC in 1981, receiving her MFA from Columbia University in 1983. Parker is known for her large, vividly painted canvases which are characterized by layers of scumbled and abraded oil paint. The final pieces contain the record of the painting process and afford evocative clues to the viewer of the layers and erasures beneath the surface. She studied with Milton Resnick, Louise Fishman and Irving Sandler and was influenced by the rigors and temperament of the New York School.Parker's paintings have been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the NY, NJ area including The Hunterdon Museum, The Newark Museum, PS 1 MOMA, The Jersey City Museum, Spanierman Modern Gallery, Heidi Cho Gallery, Gary Snyder Gallery, and the Accola Littlejohn Gallery.
Parker lives with her husband and her two children in Hoboken NJ.
She also maintains her studio there.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2021 | Celebrating Process Spanierman Modern, New York, NY |
| 2019 | FireWall Spanierman Modern, Miami, FL |
| 2014 | chants/chance Spanierman Modern, New York, NY |
| 2010 | Watermark Spanierman Modern, New York, NY |
| 2008 | Days of Winter Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2007 | Paintings Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY |
| 2005 | Refuge Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY Means of Escape DHR Corporate Space, Newark, NJ |
| 2004 | Paintings Johnson & Johnson Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ Material Witness Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY Paintings Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY Self-Evidence Gallery 31 North, Glen Gardner, NJ |
| 2003 | States of Union Queens College Art Center, New York, NY |
| 2000 | Katherine Parker and Larry Deyab Simon Gallery, Morristown, NJ Paintings Monique Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1993 | Paintings New Arts Program Gallery, Kutztown, PA Psalms Edward Williams Gallery, Fairleigh Dickinson University, NJ |
| 1991 | Stigmata Paintings Foster Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1990 | New Work Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ |
| 1989 | Recent Paintings Merrill Hall Exhibition Space, New York, NY |
| 2023 | Paros Windows, Cycladic Arts Residency, Paros, Greece Touching Down, Gallery Artists Spanierman Modern, New York, NY |
| 2022 | Ten Valentines Artworks San Francisco Art Fair, Spanierman Modern, San Francisco, CA Dallas Art Fair, Spanierman Modern, Dallas, TX artsy gallery Blue Gallery One962 Seattle Art Fair Spanierman Modern, Seattle, WA Top Six NewArt Project |
| 2021 | Talk to Me, Two person show Taplin Art Gallery, Princeton Arts Council, Princeton, NJ Gallery Artists Spanierman Modern, New York, NY |
| 2019 | Gallery Selections Spanierman Modern, Miami, FL Seattle Art Fair Spanierman Modern, Seattle, WA Texas Contemporary Art Fair Spanierman Modern, Houston, TX |
| 2018 | Art Miami Spanierman Modern, Miami, FL Seattle Art Fair Spanierman Modern, Seattle, WA Gallery Selections Spanierman Modern, Miami, FL |
| 2017 | The Big Small Show Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ |
| 2013 | Waterways II Heather Guadio Fine Art, New Canaan, CT Summer Selections Spanierman Modern, New York, NY Thirteen Contemporary Artists Spanierman Modern, New York, NY |
| 2012 | Summer Selections Spanierman Modern, New York, NY Catalog available Color Works Heather Guadio Fine Art, New Canaan, CT Modern and Contemporary Painting Spanierman Modern, New York, NY Fifteen Contemporary Artists Spanierman Modern, New York, NY |
| 2011 | January Gallery Selections Spanierman Modern, New York, NY Architectural Digest Show Pier 33, New York, NY |
| 2009 | Mark of the Hand Spanierman Modern, New York, NY |
| 2006 | Group Show Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY WAR SHOW Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ |
| 2004 | Counterpoise Studio 18 Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2003 | After Matisse/Picasso P.S.1,MOMA, Queens, NY Color Complexities JP Morgan Chase Bank, Jersey City, NJ 100 NJ Artists Make Prints New Jersey State Museum, Trenton NJ |
| 2002 | 500 Works on Paper Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY Off the Wall Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ Summer Show Barbara Ann Levy Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2001 | 21st Suffragettes SideShow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Group Show P.S. 122, New York, NY |
| 2000 | North and South Splendid , Brooklyn, NY |
| 1998 | Mixed Medea City Without Walls, Newark, NJ Pay Per It Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Field Work 450 Gallery, New York, NY Field Work Abraham Lubelsky Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1997 | 4 Artists CHI MEAT, Brooklyn, NY |
| 1996 | Sign Language Polo Gallery, Edgewater, NJ |
| 1995 | Inaugural Show National Catholic Museum, New York, NY Inadmissible Evidence City Without Walls, Newark, NJ Innovative Printmaking The Galleries, Rutgers Univ, Piscataway, NJ |
| 1994 | Tenth Anniversary Show Aljira Art Center, Newark, NJ Sign Language City Without Walls, Newark, NJ 20x20 New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA |
| 1993 | Maximizations Tribeca 148 Gallery, New York, NY Love and Chaos 111 First Street Gallery, Jersey City, NJ Walls at the Hall Seton Hall Law School, Newark, NJ |
| 1992 | Gallery Artists: New Work Foster Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY Urban Alchemy Tribeca 148 Gallery, New York, NY New Jersey Arts Annual The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ Art Auction Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ |
| 1991 | Works on Paper Foster Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY Review Preview 5 Aljira Contemporary Art Center, Newark, NJ Contemporary Art on Canvas Mitchell Art Gallery, Annapolis, MD New American Talent Waco Center for the Arts, Waco, TX Urban Alchemy City Without Walls, Newark, NJ Portrait of a City Cathedral Arts Center, Jersey City, NJ |
| 1990 | Introductions ’90 Foster Goldstrom Gallery, New York, NY Maximum Diversity City Without Walls Gallery, New York, NY New Jersey Arts Annual Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ New American Talent Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX Drawing: Step One Merrill Hall Exhibition Space, New York, NY Annual Juried Show New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ |
| 2024 | NJ State Council for the Arts Fellowship, Painting |
| 2023 | Cycladic Arts Residency, Paros, Greece |
| 2009 | Edward Albee Foundation Fellowship |
| 2006 | Cover Art, Hislop's Guide to the Arts |
| 1993 | New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Fellowship RCCP |
| 1992 | New Jersey Percent for Art, Purchase Award |
| 1992 | Organization of Independent Artists, Curatorial Award |
| 1991 | Yaddo Residency Fellowship |
EDUCATION
| 1983 | MFA (Painting) Columbia University, New York, NY |
| 1980 | BFA (Art History) Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA |
| Carrington, Coleman, Sloman and Blumenthal, Dallas, TX Daniel Marzona, New York, NY DHR International Corporate Collection, Newark, NJ Edna Epstein Law, Chicago, IL Matthew and Julianne Epstein, Hoboken, NJ Gary Snyder and Kristen Acolla, New York, NY Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ Johnson & Johnson Corporate Collection, New Brunswick, NJ Bruce and Jeannie Lubin, Hoboken, NJ Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ Newark Library, Newark, NJ New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ New York University Law School, New York, NY Rutgers Center for Creative Printmaking, New Brunswick, NJ Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Samsonite Corporation, Boston, MA Spector and Dimin, Teaneck, NJ James Weiss, San Francisco, CA Zimmerlee Museum, New Brunswick, NJ |
| 2022 | Incollect, Featured Contemporary Artist, Nov 4, 2022 ElleDecor, A Serene and Elegant Home, Sept 9, 2022 Rue Daily, A Hoboken Brownstone, Aug 22, 2022 Artsy, Katherine Parker, 36 Artworks, 2022 |
| 2021 | Town Topics, "Talk to Me", Oct 13, 2022 Newjerseystage.com, The Arts Council of Princeton presents "Talk to Me" , Oct 8, 2021 |
| 2014 | Katherine Parker "chants/chance", article, New York Art Beat, February 2014 |
| 2013 | Waterways II opens at Heather Gaudio Fine Art, article, artdaily.com, June 2013 |
| 2012 | Summer Selections, Martha Campbell catalog essay, Spanierman Modern, August 23-October 6, p.9 |
| 2010 | Spanierman Modern Is Exhibiting Katherine Parker article, hamptons.com, June 3, 2010 |
| 2009 | The Mark of the Hand, review, Cynthia Nadelman, ARTnews, June 2009 |
| 2007 | War in the Last Five Years, Artists Respond to the Last Five Years, catalog essay, Kristen Accola, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Nov. 5-March 25, p.3 |
| 2006 | Sainte Claire, cover art, Hudson River Art, 2006, volume 5 publisher, Peter Barton |
| 2005 | Refuge, Marilyn Rosenberg, catalog essay, Katherine Parker-Refuge, Heidi Cho Gallery, Rich Fog Publishing, copyright, 2005 |
| 2003 | Two friends Sharing an Artistic Connection, Carol Macgowan, Newsday, June 1, p.38 |
| 1995 | Inadmissible Evidence, William Zimmer The New York Times, August 10, J19 |
| 1994 | Sign Language, William Zimmer The New York Times, March 6, J26 |
| 1992 | Strength in Abstraction, William Zimmer The New York Times, August 30, J22 |
| 1991 | Behold the Haunting on Canvas, Carole Falk The Annapolis Capitol, June 25, B6 Artists Seek to Extract Objects of Beauty from Urban Blight, Eileen Watkins The Sunday Star Ledger, April 7, p. 4 |
| 1990 | Painful News, Few Artists Offer Easy Images, Reiko Matsuo The Jersey Journal, Gold Coast Magazine, July 12, p. 10 A Gallery That’s Almost a Museum, Vivienne Raynor The New York Times, July 29, B16 New American Talent, Sixth Exhibition, Laura Trippi Catalog Essay, Laguna Gloria Art Museum |
| 1989 | Galleries Paint a Brighter Picture for Women, Roberta Smith The New York Times, April 14, C1 |
