Steve Parker

AMERICAN ART COLLECTOR 12/06

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A strong advocate and practitioner of plein aire painting he completes small oil sketches outdoors.  He uses these as raw material to create larger pieces in his Houston studio.  Part memory, part observation, part intuitive response to deeply felt experiences, his landscapes evoke in the viewer the feeling of having remembered something long forgotten, a place once visited.  There is a feeling of recognition, of the familiar and yet the elusive.

Parker describes his works as "perceptual realism."  He sees through and beyond the face of nature to an eternal reality and he records what he sees.

Education and Experience
1979-Present Painting Exhibition Full Time
1977-1979 Studied under Lajos Markos
1976-1979 Staff Artist with Houston Post
1973-1975 Texas Academy of Art

SOLO AND DUAL EXHIBITIONS

2006                            Jack Meier Gallery                       

 2003                            Jack Meier Gallery Houston, TX 

2000                            Jack Meier Gallery Houston, TX 

1999                            Jack Meier Gallery Houston, TX 

1995                            Jack Meier Gallery Houston, TX 

1993                            University of Texas Medical School, 

     1992                            Jack Meier Gallery Houston, TX 

1991                            Kauffman Galleries Houston, TX 

1989                            Kauffman Galleries Houston, TX 

1986                            Wilhelm Galleries Houston, TX 

1980                            O’Kane Gallery, University of Houston,  

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1992-Present               Jack Meier Gallery Houston, TX

2003-2005                   Art, Inc. San Antonio, TX

1992-2005                   Art League of Houston Faculty Show

1999                            Dos Lunas Gallery Taos, NM

1998                            The Taos Gallery Taos, NM

1997                            Contemporary Southwest Gallery Santa Fe, NM

1988-1992                   Kauffman Galleries Houston, TX 

1991-1992                   Adelle M Gallery Dallas, TX 

1987-1990                   Wilhelm Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

1984-1986                   Wilhelm Gallery Houston, TX 

1983                            Galveston Art League, Spring Exhibition (First Place Award)

1983                            Gallery of the Southwest, Sugar Land, TX

1982-1983                   Fine Art Consultants of the Southwest

1980-1982                   Harris Gallery Houston, TX