Vicken Parsons
Vicken Parsons (b. 1957) is a British artist who studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. She makes small, intimate paintings on wood panel using thin layers of oil paint. Her subjects are usually of landscapes or architectural spaces, some remembered and others imagined.
Recent solo exhibitions include Kristof De Clercq Gallery, Belgium (2022); RX Gallery, Paris (2021); Cristea Roberts Gallery, London (2020); Jesus College, Cambridge (2018); Ivorypress, Madrid (2017); Alan Cristea Gallery, London (2012, 2016); Christine Koenig Galerie; Vienna (2016); Roche Court, Salisbury (2014) and Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (2014). Recent group exhibitions include Royal Academy of Arts, London (2018); Foundling Museum, London (2016); Turner Contemporary, Margate (2016); Tate Britain, London (2015); Southampton City Art Gallery (2010).
Her work is held in a number of important public collections including the Tate collection, Belvedere Museum collection, UK Government Art Collection, Arts Council Collection, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art's collection and the Jerwood Foundation.
Vicken Parsons lives and works in London.
Exhibition
Vicken Parsons: Time
25 April – 2 June 2024
Vicken Parsons: Time will feature twenty-five new paintings made over the last three years. These works mark a new development in the artist’s practice which continues to investigate the possibility of the two-dimensional plane as a place of depth, breadth and potential.
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Selected works
For a complete list of available works by Vicken Parsons please contact [email protected]
Installations
Book
New Monograph
Vicken Parsons: Time coincides with the publication of the artist’s first retrospective monograph, a 296-page hard back publication featuring Parsons’ most celebrated works, including never before seen drawings, works in progress and studio shots.
Featuring a foreword by Andrew Nairne, introduction by Charlotte Mullins and a conversation between the artist and David Batchelor. Further text include those by Michael Archer, Iwona Blazwick, Darian Leader, Richard Morphet, Anna Moszynska, Annushka Shani, Rachel Spence and Edmund de Waal.
Publication date: 29 April 2024
The monograph will be available to purchase at the gallery on the evening of Wednesday 24 April.
Photo: Maxwell Anderson
News
Exhibitions at Cristea Roberts Gallery
See also
- Ali Banisadr
- Georg Baselitz
- Christiane Baumgartner
- Rana Begum
- Pablo Bronstein
- Gordon Cheung
- Rhys Coren
- Michael Craig-Martin
- Dexter Dalwood
- Ian Davenport
- Miriam de Búrca
- Jan Dibbets