ERIK PARKER

Erik Parker (B. 1968, Stuttgart, Germany) is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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Parker is known for his precisely painted and organized worlds of chaos that exist within his brightly coloured, intensely layered, highly saturated canvases, that riff on the traditional genres of portraiture and still-life. Parker draws his inspiration from diverse elements of American subculture – psychedelia, underground comic books, the Chicago Imagists, hip hop and heavy metal, as well as Picasso, Francis Bacon and Roy Lichtenstein. 

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 Selected past exhibitions: ​​

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CAC Málaga, Malaga, Spain (2022) 

Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY (2019)

Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY (2015)

Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (2010)

Honor Fraser, Los Angeles (2013)

De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2007)

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Selected public collections:​

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The Brooklyn Museum, NY

Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen, 

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

MoMA, New York, NY

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT, USA

Queens Museum, Queens, NY, USA

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montreal, Canada

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