STATEMENT

Out of Chaos.. .

As an artist, whose work is subject to various influences, my paintings have been affected by recent events, both touching and tragic.   I listen to the radio when I'm working.   Inevitably, the commentary I hear on NPR has seeped into my work.

By putting disparate elements and moods together, I've tried to portray what the Buddhists speak of as the need to embrace both pain and pleasure in one's life.   The incongruous scenarios—variously depicting playthings, soldiers, clowns of a questionable nature, spirituality, guns, fun, menacing animals and dancers are my way of expressing the paradoxes in today's world—what appears to be kind of worldwide acting out.

The conflicting elements I use are vehicle for the paint.   Working with paint is a visceral and sensory experience that builds as I layer the paint, scrape it away, and add fresh color and motion using high-energy brushwork.

In certain respects, what results is a metaphor for a disorder, change and the indefatigable power of the human spirit... a reflection of the dichotomy of pain and pleasure we all experience over the course of time.  

 

Joyce Parcher

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Joyce Parcher

50 East 10th Street, New York , NY 10003
212-982-4181

EDUCATION:
	B.A. Temple U., MSW Adelphi U.   Studied Art at:   C. W. Post College; School of Visual Arts; Southampton College, Masters Workshop; Parsons; N.Y.U.; Ohio State U.; Mexico City College
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS and JURIED SHOWS:
2007	Ceres Gallery, New York, NY, 1-Person Show, Theme: Out of Chaos...
2006	Krasdale Gallery, Bronx, NY, Invitational Show
2005	Town Hall, East Hampton, NY, Invitational Show Ceres Gallery, New York, NY, 1-Person Show, Theme: What's the Story
2004	Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, Open Call Show, Drawing Conclusions
2003	Ceres Gallery, New York, NY, 1-Person Show, Theme: Chaos & Connections Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, Member Show, Award Winner
2002	Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY, Group Show, Theme: Sunflowers Smithtown Township Arts Council, Mills Pond House, St. James, NY, Theme: Winners 2002 Review - Quote Helen A. Harrison, New York Times, 8/18/02: ". . . Baroque sensibility. . . with a crude, almost primitive technique to create expressionistic tableaux that are at once playful and violent."
2000	Ceres Gallery, New York, NY, 1-Person Show, Theme: Kinder Garden
1999	Smithtown Township Arts Council, Mills Pond House, St. James, NY, Juried Show, Award Winner Review - Quote Helen A. Harrison, New York Times, 11/21/99: ". . . Bold color and crude brushwork reinforce the feeling of primitive ritual."
1997	Ceres Gallery, New York, NY, 1-Person Show, Theme: In To Me See
1995	Ceres Gallery, New York, NY, 1-Person Show, Theme: Figure It Out
1992	An Education Art Exhibition on Tour at Mexic-Arte, Austin, Texas, and Cleveland Institute of Art, Reinberger Galleries, Cleveland, Ohio, Theme: China: June 4, 1989 A. I. R. Gallery, New York, NY, Pro-Choice Show Hutchins Gallery, C. W. Post College, L.I.U., Brookville, NY, Theme:   Spring Invitational Discovery Art Gallery, Glen Cove, NY, Award Winner, Theme: Less Is More
1991	Bolgna-Landi Gallery, Easthampton, NY, Theme: 3 Women Painters Discovery Art Gallery, Glen Cove, NY, Theme: Democracy Struggle Review - Quote Margaret Moreman, Newsday 3/1/91:  Parcher attacks her paintings, scratching. . . their surfaces, to make   works that not only say what they say, but are what they say."
1990	P.S.1. Museum (The Institute for Contemporary Art), Long Island City, NY, Group and Juried Show Mills Pond House, St. James, NY, Juried Show Hutchins Gallery, C. W. Post College, L.I.U., Brookville, NY Discovery Art Gallery, Glen Cove, NY, 3-Person Show Review - Quote Phyllis Braff, New York Times 1/28/90: "The most powerful work, by Joyce Parcher. . . emotion and psychological anguish are major components . . . Color is used selectively, emphasizing the role of this art as haunting metaphor."
1989	Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY, Juried Show Review - Quote Helen Harrison, New York Times 5/28/89: "Ms. Parcher uses painted and drawn strokes to suggest the innate vitality of the human form."
1988	Discovery Art Gallery, Glen Cove, NY, 2-Person Show Review - Quote New York Times 1/31/88: "The bold drawings and gestural paintings . . . have strong psychological overtones . . . the figures exude lines of force that emanate like the mysterious auras said to surround the body invisibly . . . "
1987	Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY, Juried Show Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY, Juried Show Long Beach Museum, Long Beach, NY, Juried Show
1986	Fine Art Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, NY, Juried Show Long Beach Museum, Long Beach, NY, Juried Show Wunsch Arts Center, Glen Cove, NY, Juried Show Salmagundi Club, International Drawing, New York, NY, Juried Show
1985	Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY, Juried Show Surburban Art League, Syosset, NY, Juried Show Fire House Art Gallery, Nassau Community College, Hempstead, NY, Juried Show
1984	Fine Art Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, NY, Juried Show

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