Artwork copyright Lucinda Parker. Photo courtesy of Washington State Arts Commission, 2016.

Leaflets, 1994

Lucinda Parker
(American, born 1942)

Location: John Muir Elementary School, Seattle

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Combining invented and natural forms, artist Lucinda Parker created Leaflets as part of a series of artworks unified by an "almond" shape of unpainted paper set in the center of each composition. This shape challenged the artist to explore positive and negative space, and to incorporate the form into her gestural and expressive style.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Seattle School District.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Portland, Oregon-based painter Lucinda Parker creates landscapes and other compositions in an expressive, cubist style. She uses strong, visible brush strokes and bold colors. Her art expands on her personal interests in the natural world, literature, and music.

Born in Boston, Parker moved to Portland, Oregon in 1969. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree jointly from Reed College and the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She returned to the west coast in the 1970s and became an associate professor at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, for over thirty years. The Portland Art Museum honored her with a mid-career retrospective in 1995, and the Boise Art Museum presented a one-person exhibition of her work in 2002.