WORK > OCEANS APART

FISHING VILLAGE, VIEW#1
aluminum cans, wood, wire, and paint
6 x 16 x 15 inches
2016
THE CATCH
wood, pulleys, wire, cloth, and clay
71 x 72 x 24 inches
2016
TALL CORAL #1 AND #2
Larger: 120 x 42 x 27 inches Smaller: 102 x 28 x 21 inches
2016
YELLOW CORAL / BLACK CORAL
YELLOW CORAL: Metal screening, electric wire, wax thread, spray paint, spray rubber, and cement. BLACK CORAL: electric wire, steel wire, spray rubber, styrene, cement, and acrylic paint
18 x 23 x 11 inches
2015
STRING OF FISH
Fired clay, paint, rubber, wire.
2015
DEBRIS
Rusted wire, dryer lint, paper cutouts
23 x 14 x 11 inches
2015
GHOST NET
Wood, steel, wire, and fiberglass screening
78 x 33.5 x 1 inches
2015
SWELLS
found branch, wood, paint
16 x 59 x 4 inches
2014
SHORE BIRDS
Found cedar stump, wire, plastic, oil paint, glass, mahogany base
13 x 16 x 12 inches
2015
INSTALLATION OF DRAWINGS
Thompson Giroux Gallery
Blue tarps covered the gallery wall
2016
FLOATER
India ink, water color, and graphite on paper
21 x 31.5 inches
2014
POD
India ink and water color on paper
21 x 31 inces
2014
CALF
ink on paper
21 x 31.5 inches
2014
OIL
India ink, graphite, acrylic paint on paper
31 x 21 inches
2014
NETS
India ink on paper
30 x 42 inches
2014
RED SKY IN THE MORNING
India ink and water color on paper
28 x 30 inches
2014
RED CORAL
acrylic paint on paper
18 x 22 inches
2014
CORAL AND DIVER
Acrylic paint and graphite
18 x 22 inches
2017

The focus of Kingsley Parker's current work is nothing less than the ocean itself. He has often questioned human attitudes and practices as they relate to the natural world, usually employing a sense of humor more witty than acerbic.

—Joel Carreiro, Director,
MFA Program, Hunter College
(excerpted from his essay titled Tears or the Sea), 2016