Erik Parker, Analog Twist, 2013.
Acrylic on canvas. 36 x 24 inches.
Photo Farzad Owrang. Courtesy of Honor Fraser Gallery.

Opening today, November 2nd at Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles is a solo exhibition by Erik Parker, “New Magnetic Destiny”. Like Ray Yoshida, one of the Chicago Imagists, and Tadanori Yokoo, described as the “Japanese Andy Warhol,” Parker has developed a distinct visual vocabulary, through the manipulation of found images and an interest in popular culture produced during eras of social, political, and economic revolution. As Yoshida did, Parker does also – avidly collecting objects and images that are considered outside the boundaries of traditional art and incorporating them into the work. Any object or image from comic books, popular culture, pornography, may inspire and encourage the discovery of new and personal interpretations.

This exhibition brings together his iconic pyramid and plank-shaped canvases with his still lifes, which feature analog television monitors and controlled views of jungle and beach landscapes. The pyramid canvases reference the social movements in Egypt in early 2011 and the top-down structure of Ponzi schemes. Like the game “Chutes and Ladders”, these socio and political phenomena operate within a framework of surprise action, instability, and upheaval of reigning entities. These new bodies of work continue Parker’s colorful transgressiveness and anti-authoritarian approach to established ideologies, as well as introduce his new collage process.

“New Magnetic Destiny” is on view through December 21st, 2013.

For more information on “New Magnetic Destiny” visit Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles.