Park Place Window Project
Starting March 18, 2022
The Shirley Fiterman Art Center is pleased to announce Pages, a site-specific installation designed for the Park Place Window Project, by New York-based artist Kelly Parr. For this project, Parr focuses on the subject of utopian hippie houses from the 1960s, and their emphasis on the handmade, amateur, and impermanent. Using re-photographed images from books of the era, Parr creates a kind of theatrical shadow box using layered and manipulated vinyl prints on glass. Viewers look through these window-sized photos of photos as if seeing multiple pages of a book simultaneously—seeing through them and through history to reinterpretations of a visionary past.
Kelly Parr holds an MFA in Sculpture from Yale and a BA in Fine Art from the University of California, Davis, with additional studies at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia. Residencies include Sambans Íslanskra Myndlistarmanna (SIM) (Reykjavík, Iceland); The Millay Colony for the Arts (Austerlitz, NY); Socrates Sculpture Park (Long Island City, NY); Yale School of Art and Music (Norfolk, CT). Parr has exhibited widely at venues that include Artport, Kingston NY; Outpost Artist Resources, Queens, NY; Martos Gallery, East Marion, NY; Green Door Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Front Room Gallery, New York; Smekkleysa, Reykjavik, Iceland; White Columns, New York; Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY; Eugene Binder Gallery, Marfa, TX; Safnasafnið, Akureyri, Iceland; Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway; College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY; The Kitchen, NY; Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland; Blohard, Philadelphia, PA; Center for Non-Objective Art, Brussels, Belgium. Her work is represented internationally in public and private collections.
Park Place Window Project is located on Park Place between Greenwich Street and West Broadway.