OLIVIA PARKER (1943-), LOST OBJECTS PORTFOLIO, 1980 ten split-toned gelatin silver prints in clamshell box; 8 x 10in. (image), 11 x 14 in. (sheet), 20 x 16 in. (matted); each print signed, titled, numbered by artist; edition 18/35 from ed. of 35 + 4 A/Ps. OPA-0001

Includes: Whelks, 1979; Two Feathers, 1980; Galvanization, 1978; Cyclamen, 1980; Last Gate, 1979; Roses, 1980; Amulet, 1979; Shell Beans, 1979; Saturday, 1980; Site I, 1980.

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OLIVIA PARKER

After graduating from Wellesley College with a degree in the history of art, Olivia Parker began her career as a painter. Parker became involved in photography in 1970 and remains largely self-taught, making ephemeral constructions to photograph and experimenting with the endless possibilities of light. She has had more than one hundred solo exhibitions in the United States and abroad and her work is represented in major private, corporate and museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York. In the early 1990s, after almost two decades of working with large format cameras, split-toning and Polaroid materials, Parker turned her attention to the computer, fusing her collage with the new digital era. The resulting images continue to explore real and imagined worlds. In the latest series in the show, Books, Parker photographs an Ethiopian bible, its gazelle skin pages stitched to close natural holes in the hide. Sculptural in presentation, the book takes on other meanings. As Parker states, "A closed book tempts me to open it. As it opens a book may release ideas the same way an open door releases light into a darkened room." Through her works, the viewer is invited into the shadows of Olivia Parker's imagination. Portfolios of Parker’s work have been published in Art News, American Photographer,Camera, Camera Arts, The Sciences and other magazines in the United States, Europe and Japan. There have been three monographs of Parker's work: Signs of Life (Godine, 1978), Under the Looking Glass (New York Graphic Society, 1983), and Weighing The Planets (New York Graphic Society, 1987). She has lectured and conducted workshops extensively in the United States and abroad. In 1996, Parker received a Wellesley College Alumnae Achievement Award. Residencies include Dartmouth College (1988), the MacDowell Colony (1993), and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (1997).

Olivia Parker’s photographs are in the permanent collections of several museums among them: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and Bibliothèque Nationale of France.

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