07/03/2022
#oliviaparkes #soloshow #mountainsberlin
Mountains is pleased to announce Olivia Parkes THE SAME RIVER, the artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery, premiering a new body of paintings that deepen the artist's attempt to find a visual language for the circular relationship between representation and reality and the collective sense of anxiety that governs contemporary life. The artist strives for a psychological as well as physical rendering of space and color, pursuing a form of saturated or hallucinatory realism that feels commensurate with the terror, comedy, and mystery of moving through the world.
Please join artist and gallery for the opening reception on Friday March 11, 6-9 pm. The exhibition will be on view until April 16, 2022.
Exhibition text THE SAME RIVER by Kristian Vistrup Madsen.
Olivia Parkes (b. 1989, London, UK) is a British-American visual artist and writer based in Berlin. She received her BA in Studio Art & Art History from Wesleyan University in the US and graduated with a Meisterschüler from Berlin University of the Arts. Recent exhibitions and performances include Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin (2021); Dorothea Konwiarz Stiftung, Berlin (2021); Jack's Flat, curated by John Matthew Heard (2020, online); Canepa Neri, Milan, IT (2019); Gussglashalle Berlin, curated by Kunsthalleperleberg (2019); Hannah Barry Gallery, London, UK (2019); Stadium, Berlin (2017), and Berlin Masters (2016). Work by the artist is held in numerous private collections in Europe and the US.
Parkes's writing has been included in Electric Literature, Tin House, American Short Fiction, Zyzzyva, and The Baffler, among other publications. She received her MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2021.
Image:
Olivia Parkes
FLOCK, 2022
Oil on hardboard, framed
47,5 x 66,5 x 3,5 cm
18.7 x 26.2 x 1.4 in
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