ERIK PARKER
Future Forecast, 2022
24 x 18.5 inches
Archival pigment print
Limited edition of 20 with 10AP
Hand-embellished, signed, and numbered by the artist
Starting at $2,000
Erik Parker's Future Forecast engages pictorial framing and the tradition of still lifes, many composed of scenes looking out of windows, Parker multiplies the form—showing scenes within a scene. Framed between teal curtains on a checkerboard surface, is a technicolor, analog television with red antennas reaching toward the top corners of the canvas. On the television, with futuristic dials in red, blues and yellows, is a pool with a beach ball floating on the surface, pink palm trees in the foreground arc over the scene, silhouetted by the bright yellow sky—an artificial, idyllic image mediated by the screen. Beyond the television is a natural reality, a rainy night scene, in a deep blue with streaks of white marking the rain against the glass and shadows of waving leaves sweep in the wind. The artist has embellished the beach ball on each print with colored pencil, making each a unique work.
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