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Gary Parkins Resume |
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EDUCATION 1990 BFA, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 1989 Wolverhampton University, Wolverhampton, England ASSISTANCESHIPS 1988-90 Technical Assistant to Ed and Nancy Kienholz 1987-91 Technical Assistant to Clarice Dreyer EXHIBITIONS, INSTALLATIONS, & PERFORMANCES 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 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 Art Auction, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, CO Spring/Summer Exhibit, The Long Beach Museum of Contemporary Art, CA 1998 Fertile Waste, collaborative installation, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Awards Ceremony, (12 award statuettes), Dallas, TX 1997 Breathe In, Breathe Out, audio engineering for installation by 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 installation and 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 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 indescribable natural phenomena, Gary Parkins’ art is a force to be reckoned with. Sunday,
October 17, 2004
Dallas Observer Apr 22, 2004 Capsule Reviews - Repetitive Moment by Paul Booker and Intuitive Technological Experience by Gary Parkins By Charissa N. Terranova You, too, can acquire a fantasy kingdom in miniature. Coupled together but materially and formally distinct, the work of Texan Paul Booker and Montanan Gary Parkins makes for an urban archaeology of the crystalline and rocky. Made from plastic and pins, Bookers architectural sculptures sit on the wall casting shadow as if they were the lonely futuristic ruins of a dust-swept extra-planetary landscape. In a tectonic of plastic and aluminum, Booker performs tiny engineering feats. In Cantilever: Stacked Frames, the artist extends his dainty but strong materials out some 10 inches from the wall into the space of the gallery. 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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