Carolie Parker

BIO

Carolie Parker has a degree in Fine Arts from UC Irvine and an MA in Comparative Literature from UCLA. Her drawings and sculptures have been exhibited at The Brewery Project, Carl Berg Gallery, Domestic Setting and Sam Francis Gallery. Installations at The Armory Center for the Arts NW: "Water Trick" and "Platonic Form." Curatorial projects include Miniature Worlds (co-organized with Noel Korten and his curatorial studies class at LMU). She has served on the editorial committee of two poetry journals, The Jacaranda Review (UCLA Grad Division) and Kinglog.

ABOUT THE IMAGES

This work is from an ongoing series of drawings, prints and sculptures suggested by geological charts, atlases and landscape painting. Some of the drawings fuse traditional genres like seascape with the abstract language of mapping. In others, clouds, sections of ocean and chunks of terrain make imaginary configurations. Sources include the Latin American baroque, Asian landscape painting and construction sites around Los Angeles. "Cross Reference" is a series of sculptures incorporating used atlases in such a way as to scramble the original reference. "Gridlock" is constructed from urban sections of a 1960s Rand McNally Road Atlas cut into pieces and put back together all wrong. "Projection" is composed of sections of 1940s National Geographic maps of the Polar Regions. I affix the maps to torn shapes of plaster that project from the wall.