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. She is currently represented by Spanierman Modern in NYC.

Parker lives with her husband and her two children in Hoboken NJ.
She also maintains her studio there.

Essays

Parker's work has been the subject of many critical essays.

CV

Solo Exhibitions

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

Selected Group Exhibitions

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

Honors & Awards

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

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

 

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

Selected Bibliography

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

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