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Organized by professor emeritus Museum Art School in the 1960s to her acrylic salemmagazine.com announce a new exhibition featuring the work and senior faculty curator Roger Hull, the exhi- and Rhoplex paintings of the early 1970s, and There may still be opportunities to recycle some items Todavía puede haber oportunidades para reciclar that can not be placed into the mixed recycling roll cart. algunos artículos que no pueden colocarse en el of Lucinda Parker, a nationally recognized Port- bition chronicles the artist’s career over the past from her symbolic-laden work of the 1980s and Visit mcrecycleguide.net to learn of other bote del reciclaje mixto. Visita mcrecycleguide.net possible options. para conocer otras opciones posibles. land, Oregon painter whose work is firmly root- fifty years, from her remarkably sophisticated 1990s to her cubist mountain paintings of the ed in the traditions of European and American paintings created as her thesis project at the past decade. EMPTY, CLEAN, DRY VACÍO, LIMPIO, SECO Lucinda Parker (American, b. 1942), “Pinkish Lenticular,” 2017, acrylic on canvas, 62 x 48 in., courtesy of the artist and Linda Hodges Gallery. Photo: Jim Lommasson. -6- -7- Lucinda Parker, 2015. Photo: K. B. Dixon The Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette moving through the 1970s—her breakthrough Portland from the mid-century on. University is pleased to present a retrospective decade as a major figure in Pacific Northwest Hull says, “Parker is thought of as both a exhibition featuring the paintings of one of Or- modernism. In the last decades of the twentieth grand matriarch of regional modernism as well egon’s major modern artists, Lucinda Parker century, her art took on complex references to as a key presence on the current art scene in (American, born 1942). “Lucinda Parker: Force literature, music, and mythology; while in the Oregon. She is both historically significant Fields” has been organized by professor emer- twenty-first century, Parker has embraced the and currently relevant.” Hull goes on to say, itus and senior faculty curator Roger Hull and Pacific Northwest landscape as she has turned “Central to Lucinda Parker’s long, successful features 38 works of art drawn from public to rendering entire mountains in a rugged, life in art-making is her acknowledgment of and private collections throughout the region. post-cubist style. the accomplishments of others—past and pres- The exhibition opens January 19 and continues Parker’s work has been inspired by a variety ent—together with her remarkable originality through March 31, 2019 in the Melvin Hender- of movements and while firmly rooted in the as a painter of form and color, as an inventor son-Rubio Gallery and Maribeth Collins Lobby. traditions of European and American modern- of bold compositions that can stagger and ulti- Spanning some sixty years, the exhibition fol- ism, she also draws from the Pacific Northwest mately inspire viewers—artists and lay persons lows Parker’s remarkable career: from her early artistic tradition where she is especially drawn alike—who appreciate textures, energy flows, paintings; to works she created as a student at to the works of C.S. Price, Charles Heaney, Lou- and spatial dynamics pushed to the limit on a the Museum Art School in Portland, Oregon; to is Bunce, Mel Katz, and other artists active in painted surface.” Lucinda Parker (American, b. 1942), “Cantabile,” 1991, acrylic on canvas and wood, 39 1/4 x 31 1/4 in., collection of the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, OR, Lucinda Parker (American,The b. 1942), Bill Rhoades “Pinkish Collection, Lenticular,” A 2017,Gift in acrylic Memory on of canvas, Murna 62and x 48Vay in., Rhoades, courtesy 2012.003.029. of the artist and Photo: Linda Dale Hodges Peterson. Gallery. Photo: Jim Lommasson. -8- -9- Events A variety of complimentary exhibition relat- ed events have been planned and offer new in- sights into the life and times of this important and influential Oregon painter. A Lecture with Lucinda Parker will be held at 5 p.m. on January 19 at the Paulus Lecture Hall at the Willamette University College of Law. Tuesday Gallery Talks with museum docents will take place ev- ery Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. starting January 22 and continuing through March 26. A film show- ing of “Lucinda Parker on Screen” will be held February 17 between 2 and 3 p.m. at the Paulus Lecture Hall at the Willamette University Col- lege of Law. On March 10 Lucinda Parker will lead a Gallery Talk starting at 2 p.m. On March 31, the final day of the exhibition, there will be a Gallery Chat with Lucinda Parker and Roger Hull at 2 p.m. in the museum. Exhibition Monograph The exhibition monograph, “Lucinda Parker: Force Fields,” by Roger Hull, represents the first complete study of the artist and her place in American and modern art. This hardcover, 176 page book will be available for $34.95 at the mu- seum. Lucinda Parker (American, b. 1942), “Sojourn,” 1998, acrylic on canvas, 51 x 60 3/4 in., collection of the Hallie Ford Mu- Financial Support seum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, gift of Frank McCullar and Mary Wells, 2010.049.