Margaret Parker featured in Momentum
The Women’s Caucus for Art is having its 40th anniversary show “Momentum” from February 17 — March 2 to coincide with “Pacific Standard Time”, a Los Angeles region-wide celebration of art. It gathers work from across the country curated by Rita Gonzalez, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Ann Arbor artist and A&D alumna Margaret Parker’s installation, Kali: she who destroys regenerates, will be part of the exhibition.
Parker’s work has been gaining attention this year: in February, a piece was featured in “HiddenCites” at New Century Artists Gallery in NYC. Her large installation C’ood: a democracy experiment, first seen at ArtPrize in 2010, was displayed in Lansing for three months in “City Streets” sponsored by the Lansing Art Gallery. Her work was also featured in a four-person show at Flint’s Buckham Gallery, where two large installations and 3 smaller pieces made from cutup cotton T‑shirts were shown.
“T‑shirts are like our second skin,” Parker says, “they’re the generic shape of the human torso. But when they’re cut apart,they can become anything, they allow me to explore what humans can become. I carve into them, but always leave them in one whole piece. Viewers recognize the familiar shirt, imagine the original shape, and then figure out the steps in between. The imaginative process that the viewer goes through makes the art work theirs.”
Parker was also one of only eight Americans to have work featured at the 2011 Windsor Biennial in Windsor, Ontario, curated by Ian Baxter, professor of art at University of Windsor School of Visual Art.
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