Ray Parker "Simple Paintings from the 1960s"
Washburn Gallery
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In the late 1950s, Ray Parker was amongst those painters, including Morris Louis, Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, Jack Youngerman et al. who sought to create abstract paintings that filtered out the highly wrought drawing and emotional pyrotechnics of Abstract Expressionism, while retaining the scale and directness introduced by Pollock and his peers in the late 1940s and early 1950s. "Simple" Parker called the paintings he created between 1958 and 1965 that urged one or more single colored ovoid shapes to slowly float, vibrate, hover and interact in a state somewhere between dignity and jubilation. - Klaus Kertess, 2011 (Excerpt from exhibition brochure)
[Image: Ray Parker "Untitled" (1961) oil on canvas 70 x 68 in.]
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from November 17, 2011 to January 28, 2012