ARTmostfierce: Suellen Parker

Photos by Suellen Parker

1. Glamour Shot
2.Life Preserver 2004
3.Awkward Stage

ARTmostfierce highly recommends Suellen Parker's ''Incurable Still'' as innovative photography series, a most see and collectable art.

Stux Gallery located at 530 West 25th Street is currently showing the ''Incurable Still'' series from February 7- March 8, 2008.
Suellen Parker in these series addresses the ubiquitous desire for perfection: the unending quest for the perfect tan, body and life.

Parker explains herself on her website:

''The media I have chosen are significant to both the process and the meaning of the work. The characters are first formed in plasteline clay, which never dries. This allows me to continually manipulate features and forms, paralleling our bodies' constant state of change over time and our attempts to cover up, reshape, and alter our appearances. Next, a picture is a taken of the sculpture... My use of the photograph demonstrates leaves out informations about the realities of the situation and freezes that moment in time''.

''The eyes and the lips of each sculpture are created by inserting photographs of real human features, which accounts for the uncanny sensation of watching flawed fairly-tale characters come to life''.

ARTmostfierce thinks that in the current ART market, Photography as a media has to some degree over saturated the market with tons of images some rather commercial, some way too familiar (appropiations from other media say ala Richard Prince) and some photo themes or ideas are like over exposed (we seen it too many times over and over). The relevance of Suellen Parker series is that she is dealing with everyday situations that most us experience on a daily basis like,'' I am getting old'', ''do I look good enough'','' how I am perceived by others'' and presents them with a great deal of creativity and a sort of hidden black humor.It is also a refreshing and interesting new way to look at photography and communicate a theme.

ARTmostfierce is very interested in collecting some work from these series.

Considering the current ART market climate if the Stux Gallery prices don't suit your budget, checkout Aperture Foundation.

The Aperture Foundation is offering Awkward Stage as a part of their limited-edition prints for 2007. Please contact Kellie Mclaughlin, Manager of Limited Edition Prints at Aperture Foundation. Prints are only $650.00 USD of a limited edition of 30 and 5 artists proofs.

http://www.aperture.org/store/prints.aspx

http://www.stuxgallery.com/

http://suellenparker.com/

http://prints@aperture.org/