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Hand-pulled photogravure
9 x 7 inches (22.8 x 17.7 cm) image
15 x 13 inches (38 x 33 cm) paper
After graduating from Wellesley College in 1963 with a degree in Art History, Olivia Parker began her career as a painter.
She became intrigued with photography in 1970. Mostly self-taught in photography, she usually constructs what she photographs
in the studio. Her photographs are fundamentally still life inspired by those painted in the traditional Dutch, Flemish and Spanish
17th century style, with their torn petals, sumptuous but imperfect fruit and improbable insects. Parker feels that photographic
still life is still an open arena precisely because of those intrinsic qualities of this contemporary medium that distinguish
it from painting. She says that the expression of the classical ideals of form is "dead matter" because the objects
she chooses to photograph, whether alive or dead, are instead all signs of life. She is drawn to the implication of visual edges;
the swollen limits of a ripe pear touching a hard line or light downy feathers, confined by a metal grid. Her photographs ask
viewers to continually evaluate their meaning by never truly defining where the eye comes to rest.
Olivia Parker has had more than a hundred one-person exhibitions in the United States and abroad, and her work is represented
in several major private, corporate and museum collections.
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