Contact Information
(646) 382-3313
parker.caitlin@gmail.com
Upcoming Shows
October 29-December 15 2011, Macabre & Mysticism curated by Corinne May Botz, Red Roots Gallery, 25CPW, NYC.
Macabre & Mysticism
Opens Saturday, October 29th at Red Roots Gallery
Image Credit: Barnett Cohen
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Red Roots is excited to announce it’s inaugural exhibition Macabre & Mysticism,
guest curated by Corinne May Botz. The exhibition is rooted in dark narratives that lie just beneath the surface of everyday life and includes photography, video and installation works from fifteen artists, curated through an open call for submission.
Exhibition Opening
Saturday, October 29th from 6 – 10pm
25 Central Park West at 62nd Street
Included Artists:
Ben Alper
Emile Askey
Laura Bell
Emily Cameron
Barnett Cohen
Eran Gilat
Phoenix Lindsey-Hall
Eugen Litwinow
Darin Mickey
Chelsey Morell
Caitlin Parker
Brea Souders
Ayumi Tanaka
Francisco Westendarp
Margaret Wiatrowski
| Red Roots Gallery is an exhibition and event space created to support emerging artists by providing a platform for the exchange and outreach of new ideas and projects in the arts.
In collaboration with Conveyor Arts, the Red Roots Gallery will feature exhibitions curated from open-call submissions, critique groups, artist lectures, panel discussions and other events that create an open arena for artists and the community to expand ideas and take them further. |
September 13, 2011 Half Life , Sunroom Project Space, Wave Hill, Bronx NY
Half Life, 2011 Wood, dollhouse components, photographs and two time-lapse videos Dimensions variable Courtesy of the artist
Bringing together sculpture, photography and video, Caitlin Parker investigates the often tense relationship humans have with nature. Parker plays with shifts in scale and perception in her work to explore themes of anxiety, hope, growth and destruction that are manifest in our changing environment. For her multi-media project Half Life, Parker built a scale model of the southern section of Wave Hill’s Glyndor House, which contains the Sunroom Project Space, and placed it in the nearby Herbert and Hyonja Abrons Woodland from March to August 2011. Two motion-sensor cameras were fixed on the structure, recording the comings and goings of various fauna that live onsite, as well as changes to the flora over that period. Parker edited the short bursts of high-definition video into two time-lapse sequences, which are displayed with the weathered and dilapidated model, serving as a witness to the unseen changes in the landscape.
In her artistic practice, Parker sets up a scenario but then relinquishes control of the project and lets nature take over. Her work reflects the fear of catastrophic events, such as nuclear crises or global climate change. The scientific term “half-life” refers to the amount of time it takes for decaying substances to decrease by half. This process continues indefinitely and unpredictably. In this project, Parker has miniaturized the man-made edifice and acknowledges the futility of attempting to control nature. The white, pristine walls of the Sunroom interior contrast starkly with the battered and sullied model in the center of the space, giving the eerie feeling that something has gone awry. The plants and animals in the videos appear to be larger than life. As they go about their daily existence, they become a disconcerting reminder that nature endures in the absence of humans.
Yet the two videos, one representing day and the other night, also speak to the constant renewal inherent in the cycles of the natural world.
Caitlin Parker received her MFA in painting from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts and her BA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London. She has had solo exhibitions at Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York; Garage Gallery, Los Angeles; and Rhodes + Mann, London. In May 2011, she was part of a two-person show, Pripyat – Chernobyl, at RMZ Galerie in Frankfurt. She has been in group shows in Stuttgart, Germany; Reno, NV; Hudson, NY; and on Governors Island, NY. Parker has been awarded a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant and a Bard College MFA Fellowship. She wishes to thank David Markowitz and Corinne May Botz. [www.caitlinparker.com]
September 18, 1:30pm, Meet the Artist
May 6-29, 2011 Pripyat – Chernobyl, RMZ Galerie, Frankfurt Germany
PRIPYAT - CHERNOBYL
Thierry Buysse (Brügge) Fotografie 2007 – 2008
Caitlin Parker (New York) Malerei 2007 – 2008
GALERIE ROBERT MAYER ZEIGT
Robert-Mayer-Straße 49 HH
60486 Frankfurt am Main
February 12, 2010
August 15, 2009 11am-6pm
“Ars Sublimis”
Summer Screening II, Orsanz Summer Museum, Governor’s Island, NY
April 2009
“Incident No. 20″: Incident Report Viewing Station, Hudson NY
February 2009
“I Like Winners: Sports and Selfhood”, Sheppard Fine arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno
Artist Statement
My work gathers together sculpture, photography, video, painting and drawing. It investigates the intersection of the environment, scale, anxiety, hope, growth and destruction. Research, interviews, and a scientific component of trial and error are often part of the process. My recent projects explore the recovery of the irradiated environment surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant; my childhood home in California with the natural world growing inside the domestic space; the “destruction” of a miniature house in upstate New York where northeast native plants, weather and animals are invited to participate in it’s transformation, all captured on time lapse video.