Drawings from Recent Solo Show 03/24/09

This series of drawings are meditations on different characteristics of music using gauche, ink, charcoal, fabric and marker on layered translucent paper. Parris explores different ways mark making can mimic musical notation and convey varying degrees of energy and volume. In some drawings the marks aggressively drive the composition and in others color is used as the dominant quality reflective of melody and harmony weaving in and out of each other.  Feelings of depth, texture and tone are achieved by layering many pieces of velum together to push together or pull apart the marks, color and spatial dimensions of each piece. These soundscapes reflect a measure or phrase of music being played over a short period of time and purposely do not reference specific pieces of music leaving room for the viewer's interpretation.

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A special thanks to Dave Mello for taking these

pics at the opening.