Gertrud Parker
http://www.gertrudparker.com

WINGS OF PRAYER
2001
28" x 21" x 24"
Gutskin, japanese fabric, ink,
and waxed thread


UNUSUAL STEEPLES
2000-2001
72-96" x 30" x 10"
Steel, gutskin, resin, plastic


GUN-AN-DIN
2000
25" x 19" x 11"
Steel, gutskin, organza,
paint and dye, urethane

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Born
Vienna, Austria

Education
Vienna, Paris, San Francisco
BA University of California, Berkeley, CA

Honors
1982-1989 Founder, Chair of the Board, San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum

Solo Exhibitions
2000 Galerie Haasner, Wiesbaden, Germany
"Vernissage & Kolloquim" Bundesinstitut, St. Wolfgang, Austria
1997 "3 Generations: Women Interpreting Women..." Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, CA
1993 "Gertrud Parker: A Lightness in Being," Museum of Craft & Folk Art, San Francisco, CA.
1989 "'And the Ground Swell...Clangs', Works in Gut and Fishskin", Gertrud Parker, Allen Moe, California State University, Hayward, CA
1988 "Fiber/Gut Paintings and Sculpture by Gertrud Parker" Art Exhibition Galleries, Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions
2000-01 Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL., Sept. 24- Feb.11, 2001
2000 "Kleine Formate". Galerie B. Haasner, Wiesbaden, Germany
"7th biennal shoebox show" University of Hawaii (invitational, traveling show)
"American Reliquaries" Museum of Craft & Folk Art, San Francisco, CA
1999 "Kleine Formate", Galerie B. Haasner, Wiesbaden, Germany
"California Craft" Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Toyamura International Sculpture Biennale, Hokaido, Japan

Collections
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA., New York Times, NY., Smithsonian Archives, Washington, DC., Prefecture of Gunma Gun, Japan

ARTIST STATEMENT

The credo of the "Wiener Werkstaette" (Vienna Workshops) that Art and Life should converge, permeates my personal and cultural roots.

In my artwork I use the natural, organic material of gut skin which is both surprising and unpredictable, often determining its own lines. It can be stretched and pinned, cut, shaped and dyed. Whey dry, it becomes hard, with solid form, magically transparent.

My armatures are mostly steel, sometimes aluminum, brass or bronze, which I weld and shape to the specifications of my preliminary sketches. Combining gut skins with steel creates a juxtaposition of opposites: toughness and fragility, metaphor and reality are united.



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