What Falls Away Is Always (after Roethke) Painting

My work is interdisciplinary in approach and concept. Just as words, sounds, and images rooted in memory may trigger the composition of a poem, collage is a mode of perception that prompts integration of different sorts of accumulated language. My materials include antique literature and music books and other ephemera. Fragments of lived experience are the bricks and mortar I use to build, constructing new spaces informed by time’s passage. Early life in the home of an architect and a violinist shaped my aesthetic. Exposure to the art of architecture encouraged interest in spatial relationships, taught me to read elevations and visualize their 3-D intentions, and, at construction sites, to appreciate the evolution of concept to form. Music played through and where words ended, roused layers of emotional response, and altered the sense of place and time. Together, these ingredients fostered an affinity for abstraction and design. In one of my favorite books, The Poetics of Space, philosopher Gaston Bachelard explains that an inhabited space transcends its geometrical constraints, that it becomes a container in which past, present and future reside. This inclusive and emotional sense of space has long informed my practice. Artist and poet Jacqueline Dee Parker was born in NYC and raised in New Haven, CT. She holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA in Creative Writing / Painting and Drawing from Louisiana State University. Parker’s poems appear in literary journals and anthologies, including Chelsea, The Southern Review, Atlanta Review, and American Diaspora: Poetry of Exile, among others. Her vintage paper collages and mixed media paintings are exhibited throughout the US and can be found in private and corporate collections internationally. Ann Connelly Fine Art (LA) and Devin Borden Gallery (TX) represent her work, and she is an artist member of the Baton Rouge Gallery Center for Contemporary Art. Select collections of licensed works are available from StudioEL.com and original works can be found on 1stdibs.com. Parker is the recipient of a 2007 Artist Fellowship from the Louisiana State Division of the Arts and a 2021 Individual Artist Career Opportunity Grant from South Arts. She lives in Baton Rouge, LA with her husband, cellist Dennis Parker.