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| Parker Barfield, Close Your Eyes and Sleep, 45 x 96, ink, graphite, and charcoal on paper |
Parker Barfield
is a recent BFA graduate from Clemson University [BFA in Art, drawing emphasis, 2016], and is originally
from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. Growing up, Parker moved around the
country as the son of a Marine Corps Officer. Experiences living among
wide array of American landscapes serve as a primary driver for the
artist’s work. Once at Clemson, he began to contemplate, understand, and
communicate these experiences through art. In his experience landscape
serves as a gateway into immaterial, imaginative, fantastical and
spiritual aspects of existence. Because landscape is such a strong
influence in his life, it is through interaction with the things of the
landscape that deeper questions are asked and answered not only by the
artist’s cognition, but he suggest that the elements themselves have
something to tell him.
Redux Contemporary Art Center (Redux) is a nonprofit organization
committed to fostering creativity and the cultivation of contemporary
art through diverse exhibitions, subsidized studio space for visual
artists, meaningful education programs, and a multidisciplinary approach
to the dialogue between artists and their audiences.
Redux offers free year round art exhibitions,
artist and curator lecture series, and film screenings, while educating
art patrons of all ages through fine art classes and workshops,
community outreach, and internship opportunities.
Redux is instrumental in presenting new
artists to our community through our artist-in-residency program, and
our many artist and music performances. In addition, Redux remains a
bustling center for contemporary art with 16 private artist studios, and
the only community printmaking and darkroom facilities in the
lowcountry.
136 St. Philip Street
Charleston, SC 29403
Tuesday - Friday 10am-6pm
Saturday 12pm-5pm
Artist's statement: In my work I play out my existential search, born of collective
experiences in American landscapes spanning the continental United
States. Landscapes and natural objects as both actors and old friends
are touchstones, representing my dialectical desire for both familiar
and mystifying experiences. I acknowledge my grounded, bound, and
potentially comprehensible experience in my local situation, yet am
always drawn deeper into immaterial, metaphysical, and spiritual aspects
of existence. Because landscape is such a strong influence in my life,
it is through interaction with the things of the landscape that deeper
questions are asked and answered not only by my own cognition, but I
suggest that the elements themselves have something to tell me.
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| Parker Barfield, ink, graphite, and charcoal on paper |
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