|
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.
|