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Parks Anderson | Black & Blue | Nov/Dec 2024

10/30/2024 By Laura Chapman

This November, we are thrilled to debut a new collection of over 40 works by esteemed artist Parks Anderson. With this exhibition, Black & Blue, Anderson returns to his studio and art-making practice after 33 years. Anderson‘s new sculptures carefully balance his reductive, modern, and geometric methodologies, combining wood, glass, and bold colors to explore the duality between the controlled hand of the artist and the natural, untouched beauty of the material itself. The artworks included in this full gallery exhibition range in scale from the monumental to the intimate. Yet, despite their range, each sculpture offers a moment of the sublime–beautiful, textured, assertive, and familiar, yet reaching into the vastness of something unknown.

“Covid and time ended my 33-year working for Dale Chihuly, wherein all my creative focus was on his work and the arc of his success. I had allowed myself to become fallow as an artist without my own challenges.

Now, with time, I have built a studio and started working for myself again.

Over the past two years, I was drawn to several assortments of distinctive wood that had been discards given to me. These were remnants left from harvesting trees, from the rough cutting of lumber, from building construction, and from the making of fine furniture. These discards were saved by others because of their shape and their textures. They expressed the character of the wood determined by weather, cut, fire and decay and were a kind of diary of time.

Within these gifted savings of others, I began finding myself, as measured by this work.”

–Parks Anderson

Please join us for the opening reception and celebration of Parks Anderson’s return on Thursday, November 7th from 5:00–8:00 pm.

If you’re interested in viewing or acquiring artwork before the opening, please contact us at info@travergallery.com or 206-587-6501.

Click here to see available works

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