Erik Parker

1968, Stuttgart, Germany

 

Erik Parker has a personal style marked by the union of influences and ideas that refer to pop art culture, the underground, hip-hop, the Chicago Imagists or the American psychedelic subculture. His works are characterized by the use of his own inventive architecture and a style differentiated by a taste for neon with risky compositions through his particular heads, hieroglyphics, landscapes or still lifes, taking as reference the resources found in magazine images, cartoons, comics or the internet.

 

Parker has had solo exhibitions at galleries and museums around the world, including Over the influence, Hong Kong , China; Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA; CAC Málaga, Spain; HOCA Foundation, Hong Kong , China; Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, USA or De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His work is present at the permanent collection of institutions such as Art, Design and Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Bárbara, USA; The Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA; Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York, USA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA, among others.