Lucinda Parker and Fire Art Glass Exhibition October 4, 2010

Gallery Showing:

Lucinda Parker/Fire Art Glass

"Process drawings and collages for Evening Sun, a Fused Glass Relief Sculpture"

PCC Rock Creek Helzer Gallery, 17705 NW Springville Rd., Portland 97229, Building 3.

October 4-November 12, 2010

This exhibition, the first of the Helzer Art Gallery’s 2010-2011 season, is a behind-the-scenes look at one work of art: Lucinda Parker’s Evening Sun, a massive (36 x 96 in.) fused glass relief sculpture commissioned by a private client.

***Parker will also hold an artist’s talk Thursday, October 14 at 12pm at PCC Rock Creek, Building 2, Room 128. The exhibit and artist’s talk are free and open to the public, parking is $3***

Parker has had shows at the Portland Art Museum, PNCA and one of her alma maters Reed College. She is represented by Laura Russo Gallery and her work hangs in the Oregon Convention Center and Lower Columbia College.

The Rock Creek exhibition will consist of approximately 25 drawings and collages that trace Parker’s thoughts and ideas, as she moved from small, early drawings to scale models of the actual piece. Viewers will be able to trace Parker’s decisions on motifs, lines and colors and how she translated them into a vocabulary suitable for glass.

Parker, who is known for the strength and vigor of her large-scale, expressive paintings and her virtuosic drawings, has worked on many commissions, including a 40’ x 10’ painting for Lower Columbia College in 2008, but this is the first time she has embraced the intricacies and challenges of glass, relying on the expertise of the staff at Fire Art Glass.