KATHERINE PARKER
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Navigational error (2019-Current)
Miniature Places to Be (2019- Current)
Inventing Spaces (2018- Current)
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No Physical Evidence of a Sonoma Landscape. January 2019. Material: Egg Tempera, ink, plaster, oil pastel, stitching, digital drawing over manipulated photograph, projector, and metal stand. Dimensions: 48in. x 24in. x 24in. Description: This work consists of a painting half wrapped around a stand and against a wall at a sharp angle featuring an invented landscape of Sonoma. The painting has an overlay with a projecting of that painting after being manipulated several times.
No Physical Evidence of a Sonoma Landscape. January 2019. Material: Egg Tempera, ink, plaster, oil pastel, stitching, digital drawing over manipulated photograph, projector, and metal stand. Dimensions: 48in. x 24in. x 24in. Description: This work consists of a painting half wrapped around a stand and against a wall at a sharp angle featuring an invented landscape of Sonoma. The painting has an overlay with a projecting of that painting after being manipulated several times.
No Physical Evidence of a Midwest Landscape. November 2019. Material: Egg Tempera on Canvas, stitching, digital drawing over manipulated photograph, projection. Dimensions: 36in. x 30in. Description: This work consists of a loosely draped painting featuring an invented landscape of the midwest. The painting is overlaid with a projection of a photograph of the same painting after being manipulated several times.
No Physical Evidence of a Midwest Landscape. November 2019. Material: Egg Tempera on Canvas, stitching, digital drawing over manipulated photograph, projection. Dimensions: 36in. x 30in. Description: This work consists of a loosely draped painting featuring an invented landscape of the midwest. The painting is overlaid with a projection of a photograph of the same painting after being manipulated several times.
Documentation of Space (Centralia Corner). September 2019. Material: Gesso on canvas, manipulated photograph, google maps image of Centralia, Missouri, projection. Dimensions: 120in. x 96in. x 72in. Description: This work considers documentations of space, specifically using aerial images of land from Google Maps, and photographs of the invented space made by the painting installation itself.
Documentation of Space (Centralia Corner). September 2019. Material: Gesso on canvas, manipulated photograph, google maps image of Centralia, Missouri, projection. Dimensions: 120in. x 96in. x 72in. Description: This work considers documentations of space, specifically using aerial images of land from Google Maps, and photographs of the invented space made by the painting installation itself.
Materialized Empathy (Border wall/Pier). September 2017. Material: Oil paint on panel, wood frame, plexiglass sheets, reflection. Dimensions: 96in. x 96in. x 48in. Description: Interactive sculpture featuring an inverted painting of the similarities between an image of the U.S./ Mexico border wall and the Pacific Beach Pier in San Diego. The piece uses the reflection of two sheets of plexiglass to displace the image of the viewer inside the work.
Building Toys. December 2017. Material: wood 2x4 and rope. Dimensions: 96in. x 3in. x 4in. Description: Interactive sculpture with entire 2x4 remodeled into two person interactive toy. Toy pivots on wheel in the center and falls until toy catches itself inches above the floor.
Space Toys. University of California- San Diego courtyard, November 2017. Material: Plastic tarp, cleaning gloves, and structural support. Dimensions: 120in. x 120in. x 60in. Description: Interactive sculptures facilitating physical contact between viewers in synthetically protected environments.
127 Studies. Potential Images. Kamil Gallery. February, 2018. Material: Oil paint on canvas, digital drawing over photograph, projection. Dimensions: 144in. x 48in. Description: Painted canvas panel suspended from the ceiling in the center of the room. Painted portions reflect images produced from studies on hemispheric neglect. The projection is used to replicate the notion of subconsciousness intervention.
Spatial Positioning with Marin Landscape. November, 2019. Material: Oil paint on canvas, embroidery, glass frame, wood and metal supports, digital drawing over photograph, projection. Dimensions: 24in. x 20in. x 24in. Description: Painted canvas of a Marin landscape wrapped and suspended in a glass and wood box. The expressive painting is overlaid with a projection of itself after being manipulated several times.
Invented Space. Here/Now Converging Histories (Undergraduate Art Show). July 2018. Material: 5 panels of oil painted canvas, digital drawing over photograph, projection, fans. Dimensions: 144in. x 240in. x 360in. Description: Installation incorporates five painted canvases to act as permeable architecture. The projections display digital drawings over manipulated photograph of the surface area. The four separate projections limit the viewer's ability to differentiate between what is painted and what is superficially imposed on the surface.
Invented Space. Here/Now Converging Histories (Undergraduate Art Show). July 2018. Material: 5 panels of oil painted canvas, digital drawing over photograph, projection, fans. Dimensions: 144in. x 240in. x 360in. Description: Installation incorporates five painted canvases to act as permeable architecture. The projections display digital drawings over manipulated photograph of the surface area. The four separate projections limit the viewer's ability to differentiate between what is painted and what is superficially imposed on the surface.
Spatial Positioning with Living Space. November, 2019. Material: Oil paint on canvas, manipulated photograph, projection. Dimensions: 48in. x 30in. Description: Study of the relationship between intimate living space, memory, and subconscious intervention. The piece considers the messy understanding of even the most familiar environments when faced with perspective and misinformation.
Spatial Positioning with Living Space (Detail). November, 2019. Material: Oil paint on canvas, manipulated photograph, projection. Dimensions: 48in. x 30in. Description: Study of the relationship between intimate living space, memory, and subconscious intervention. The piece considers the messy understanding of even the most familiar environments when faced with perspective and misinformation.
Spatial Positioning with Marin Landscape. December 2019. Material: Oil paint on canvas, embroidery, glass frame, wood and metal supports, digital drawing over photograph, projection. Dimensions: 24in. x 20in. x 24in. Description: Study considering landscape and the inability to separate the idea of a space and the exterior space itself. The digital overlay hinders the viewer's ability to focus properly on what the physical work contains by blurring, providing misinformation, and altering the perspective of the work itself.
Things That Go Inside. October 2019. Material: Gesso on Canvas, embroidery, glass and wood frame. Dimensions: 24in. x 20in. x 24in. Description: Study on consumption and how it relates to one’s understanding of the inner space of the body and the subconscious.
Invented Space with Green Drape. October 2019. Material: Gesso on Canvas, embroidery, glass and wood frame. Dimensions: 24in. x 20in. x 24in. Description: Diagram for invented spaces room installation.
Work
Portfolio
Specific Projects
>
Navigational error (2019-Current)
Miniature Places to Be (2019- Current)
Inventing Spaces (2018- Current)
About
Artist Statement
CV
Contact
UCSB Incoming MFA Exhibition