20″x20″; vintage paper and acrylic on canvas; Courtesy of the artist.
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Jacqueline Dee Parker: The Keeping Room
at Baton Rouge Gallery in Baton Rouge, Louisiana USA
27 February-24 March 2026
Jacqueline Dee Parker is inspired by ancient Greek pottery because it feels profoundly human—shaped by hand, integrated into daily life, and embedded with stories that resonate across time. These vessels function simultaneously as utilitarian objects and cultural archives, bearing belief systems, rituals, and identities through form, surface, and use. They remind her that meaning is often preserved through touch, repetition, and design, rather than permanence alone.
18″x18″; vintage paper and acrylic on canvas; Courtesy of the artist.
Much of Parker’s practice centers on creating abstract, visceral spaces—sites where memory gathers and settles. In this body of work, that impulse has shifted toward the construction of vessels. Drawing from the legacy of ancient pottery, she approaches the vessel as both container and storyteller. She imagines these forms holding the verbal and musical echoes of those who shaped her—relatives, friends, artists, and writers—preserving fragments of love, language, and influence.
In a world unmoored by chaos and disbelief, Parker intends for these vessels to serve as safekeepers of truth and beauty.
(text adapted from material provided by the gallery)
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