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Rare Abstract Painting African American Outside Artist

Flowers in a Vase, intensely and seductively colored: almost in a Japonaise style. Swooning purples and reds, ecstatic lemon yellows, Jostling shapes, lyrical and soft-edged, refuse ...

Erin Parish (American, b. 1966) 40004"Sugar High Undertow" Hand signed and dated 2005 verso, Oil and resin on panel. 18"h x 24"w Erin Parish ( 1966 -, St. Louis, MO) is an American painter and independent curator. She graduated from Bennington College in 1988 with a B.A. and Queens College with an M.F.A. in 1990. Parish is the daughter of four artists. As a child growing up] talk in her family focused on the New York Times and the changing commercial and philosophical views of the art world. She has been exhibiting regularly since the age of 18 and has been a practicing artist for nearly four decades. While her early influences range from Joseph Cornell to the German Expressionist artists and the Neue Wilde artists of the 1980s, she now draws inspiration from the Hudson River School artists, as well as Mariko Mori, Yayoi Kusama and Japanese woodcuts by Hokusai and Hiroshige. She is also influenced by the Japanese principles of Wabi-sabi and Yugen. She has been represented by Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York, NY, Spanierman Modern, New York, NY and Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA. SELECTED GALLERY GROUP EXHIBITIONS ​​2023 "Artistry and Alchemical Process," Spanierman Modern, New York NY (artists included: Steven Alexander, Dan Christensen, Elaine De Kooning, Sam Middleton, Joan Mitchell, Andy Moses, Erin Parish, Dan Rizzie) ​2021 "Twenty-five-year Anniversary Exhibition," Winston Wachter Fine Art, NY NY​ 2020 "Abstract Allegories," Spanierman Modern, Miami Beach, FL "Summer Mood," curated by Natasha Schlesinger at Topping Rose House, Easthampton, NY 2019 "Portfolio Review Series the Laundromat Art Space," Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, FL "Full Spectrum: Lynne Cook, Erin Parish, William Rushton" Andra Norris Gallery, Burlingame, CA 2017 "Parish, Parish, Parish" Ellen Kayrod Gallery, Detroit, MI "Detroit Abstraction," Janice Charach Gallery, curator Rick Vian, West Bloomfield, MI 2015 “Creating A Scholar,” Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Miami, Fl with the American Institute of Architects “Gallery Artists for the XII Havana Biennial,” Bustamante Fine Art, Havana, Cuba 2013 Documenta USA,” Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI 2001 “Father/Daughter, Tom Parish...

Alexis Portilla obtained his Masters of Fine Arts at Columbia University in 1990. His bold linear lines, use of symbols, pictographs and strong colors create atmospheric abstracts. ...

The orange areas interlace with the red, conveying a sense of warmth and enthusiasm, as if the sun were in constant explosion. These tones ignite the spark of emotion in the artwork....