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EDUCATION 1991 BFA, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 1989 Wolverhampton University, Wolverhampton, England
ASSISTANCESHIPS 2009 Susan Stockwell, London, England, Houston, TX 2001 Judy DeSanders, Dallas, TX 1997 Sherry Owens, Dallas, TX 1988-90 Edward Kienholz and Nancy Redin, Hope, ID, Berlin, Germany 1987-91 Clarice Dreyer, Bozeman, MT, Seattle, WA
GRANTED NEW FORMS REGIONAL ARTS INITIATIVE AWARD 1995
EXHIBITIONS,
INSTALLATIONS, & PERFORMANCES 2011 Wheel of Fortune: The Art of Spinning Out
of Control,
The NewBLK Gallery, Omaha,
NE
Peaking The Edge, Plus Gallery, Denver, CO
(MA)chi(N)e(MADE), Vertigo, Denver, CO Machine Memoir, Obsidian Gallery, Houston, TX 2010 Houston to UK, Frank, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England Machine Memoir, Obsidian Gallery, Houston, TX 2009 Cooler Than Usual, N Gallery, Houston, TX Current Drawings, The Houston Foundry, Houston, TX CDC Art on the Avenue, Winter Street Studios, Houston, TX Demonstration and Discussion, Rice University, Houston, TX 2008 8 X 10, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX 2006 Housing Crisis Center, HCC, Dallas, TX Gary Parkins, Richland College, Dallas, TX 2005 Salon Du Fit, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX Continuation Exhibits, Gray Matters Gallery, Dallas, TX 2004 Sculpture From Another World, MORO Gallery, Albuquerque, NM Great Things in Small Packages, Gray Matters Gallery, Dallas, TX
Intuitive Technological Explorations, Southside
on Lamar, Dallas, TX Intuitive Technological Explorations II, The MAC, Dallas, TX English Art Terms, SOCA Gallery, Tainan, Taiwan 2003 Memory Machines, Karen Mitchell Frank Gallery, Dallas, TX Continuous Exhibits, Design Within Reach, Dallas, TX 2002 Showcase, Robert Bellamy Design, Dallas, TX Small, NRH Gallery, North Richland Hills, TX Egopark, Egopark, San Francisco, CA Pop Soup, Egopark, San Francisco, CA Graphite/Graphite, NRH Gallery, North Richland Hills, TX Recent Work, Karen Mitchell Frank Gallery, Dallas, TX 2001 Painting on Glass: For Brushstroke Maniacs, production management for Judy DeSanders, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX 1999 BMoCA Invitational, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, CO Spring/Summer Exhibit, The Long Beach Museum of Contemporary Art, CA 1998 Fertile Waste, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Dallas, TX 1997 Breathe
In, Breathe Out, with Sherry Owens, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX Me Myself and I, Timothy Higbee Gallery, San Francisco, CA Confinement 2, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX 1996 Post-Postcard, Four Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA Three Possible Science-Based Conclusions, performance, Rocky Mountain College, Billings, MT Mexican Cowboys and Indian Low-Riders, collaborative performance, Holter Museum, Helena, MT 1995 Images of Confinement, Artspace, Billings, MT How I Value My Education, Elysian School, Billings, MT The Naked Poet, video, TV Channel 7, Billings, MT Verbal Ulcer, performance, Artspace, Billings, MT 1994 Classic Dilemmas, Fort Collins Creative Arts, Fort Collins, CO 1993 Living
in the Video Capture System, D.H. Lawrence Ranch, Taos, NM Living in the Video Capture System, Elysian School, Billings, MT Worlds Apart, video, East Ashland Art Center, Phoenix, AR Worlds Apart, video, Montana Alternative Music and Arts Festival, Bozeman, MT REVIEWS David Hardaker, 2009
Gary is a sculptor. The title sculptor does not do justice to what Gary creates nor even begin to suggest the finished work of art that his constructs create. Gary Parkins makes machines that make art. After the painstaking design and assembly of a machine that may be as small as a book or fill a room, he allows the machine to perform a repeated cycle that causes medium to flow in a random manner within governed parameters. If the medium is pen, the result is a magical hatching of tens of thousands of tiny lines. Taking many hours to form, these 'drawings' coalesce into being in a viral way....but that's only the beginning. From electronics and audio, through the creation of magnetic sculptures that cling and form to each other and utilizing a skill set that includes deep knowledge of engineering, Gary Parkins has forged a singular path in the art world. He has acted as a technical assistant to such art world luminaries as Ed and Nancy Kienholz, Susan Stockwell, and Sherry Owens. His folio includes sculptures in all materials as well as conceptual pieces and simple drawings.
Tom Sale, September 2004 Gary Parkins is probably Leonardo DaVinci incarnate. Among other things, his interests incorporate science, technology and hi-tech manufacturing. Like DaVinci, Parkins’ work is joyfully unpredictable. One day he is rearranging the molecular arrangement of magnet particles with mega-volts of electricity, the next he is off plying his trade to the new industrial princes of the Orient. Okay...Leonardo with a little mad scientist and pull-himself-up-by-the-bootstraps entrepreneur thrown in! For the Parkins followers, we’re never sure what to expect at each new turn of his career. He can be both a conceptual artist exploring interesting scientific phenomena as well as an intense formalist playing with perfect shapes and seductive materials. No matter the label, there is always is a spark of genius sizzling inside each piece, and what keeps us coming back is that those sparks are never the same--sometimes we’re electrified by the visual complexity, sometimes by the cosmic simplicity--often because, whatever the surface subject matter or narrative thread, we seem to be looking directly into the mind of a fascinating character. Inside that mind we see a story of the universal laws unfolding-- we can imagine stories of the beginnings of matter, the music of the spheres, molecules’ interaction with each other like characters in a theatrical production: Sister Electricty slaps Brother Gravity and, voila, another Parkins’ piece is born! If
you take only a casual look at Parkins’ work, you might be attracted to his
abstract shapes and beautiful craftsmanship. On a more contemplative level,
you might dig down to some of the mysteries of life that have been eluding
you. Part alchemy, part
Sunday,
October 17, 2004
Parkins is an inventor from Dallas who now lives in
China and happens to make sculpture. Dallas Observer Apr 22, 2004
...Parkins
sculpture is similarly small but more elemental, or, shall I say, mineral.
Working with magnet as a raw material for sculpting, Parkins makes small,
craggy forms, most of which are intended to be manipulated by human hands.
Attracted by electromagnetic pulsion, the pieces
come in small, irregularly shaped components that can be put together and
taken apart. The pieces come in a variety of shapes and sizes, from the fingery and coral reef-like to the bulbous and sugar
sack-shaped. An exception to this is Parkins small tray of whirling, glittery
disco dust, Thought Barrier, which, with its mesmerizing spin of sparkly
sand, lures one into the gallery space. The preciosity of this work packs a
powerful punch. Through May 9 in the New Works Space at The McKinney Avenue
Contemporary, 3120 McKinney Ave., 214-953-1MAC.
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