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ROBERT AND SHANA PARKEHARRISON
BIOGRAPHIESBorn: Robert: 1968 Shan: 1964
Hometown: Robert: Fort Leonard Wood, MO Shana: Tulsa, OK
Lives and Works: Great Barrington, MA
Website: www.parkeharrison.com
Education: Robert ParkeHarrison:MFA, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,
NM, 1994BFA, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, 1990Shana ParkeHarrison:
BFA, William Woods College, Fulton, MO, 1986
ABOUT THEM
Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison are a husband and wife duo who have been
making photographs together for almost 20 years. Their work focuses on the
relationship between humans and the environment—an idea that has only
recently come to popularity with movements like the Go Green initiative and
concepts like the carbon footprint. Using photogravure, collage, and painting
techniques, the ParkeHarrisons create cinematic environments that explore
how we interact with our natural surroundings. The ParkeHarrisons' work can
be found in over 20 prestigious museum collections, and their book The
Architect's Brother was named one of the ten best photography books by the
New York Times in 2000. Recently the couple has begun working in sculpture—
large dramatic pieces that complement the dreamy qualities of their
photogravures.
GALLERIES
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NYDavid Floria
Gallery, Aspen, COCatherine Edelman Gallery,
Chicago, IL
GALLERIES CONT.
Select Permanent Collections
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CASan Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CAWhitney Museum of
American Art, New York, NYNational Museum of American Art,
Washington D.C.Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MAMuseum of
Photographic Arts, San Diego, CAMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston,
TXNew York Public Library, New York, NYFogg Art Museum,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MAThe John D. & Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, Il
STYLE
My photographs tell stories of loss, human
struggle, and personal exploration within landscapes
scarred by technology and over-use…. [I] strive to
metaphorically and poetically link laborious actions,
idiosyncratic rituals and strangely crude machines
into tales about our modern experience.
—Robert ParkeHarrison
STYLE
Robert ParkeHarrison is a fine art/ surrealist
photographer. His work is a collaboration with
partner and wife, Shana. Robert showed up on the
scene (in a big way) a little over a decade ago, with
his book “The Architect’s Brother.” The book was
named one of ‘the Ten Best Photography Books of
the Year’ of 2000 by the New York Times, but it
probably wouldn’t be an understatement to call it
one of the ten best of the decade.
The images evoke a kind of Terry Gilliam–esque feeling, but with just a little bit
more magic and a little less color. If Terry Gilliam took a lot Valium, I’m pretty
sure this is what it would be like to live in his mind.
There is also a certain sadness to a lot of the work. Many of the pieces feature
one solitary man, in a black suit, taking on some seemingly impossible task.
“My photographs tell stories of loss, human struggle, and personal exploration
within landscapes scarred by technology and over-use…. [I] strive to
metaphorically and poetically link laborious actions, idiosyncratic rituals and
strangely crude machines into tales about our modern experience.”
-Robert ParkeHarrison
SUSPENTION
MOURNING CLOAK
FLYING LESSON
STOLEN SUMMER
EMULATION OF “THE LOVER”