ARTFORUM
Critic's Picks
This compact selection of works showcases Erik Parker’s adept combination of trippy biomorphic figuration and aggressive neon palette, to jolting effect. The canvases and works on paper can be sorted in terms of their (distant) family resemblance to traditional genres, such as portrait and still life...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
No Longer Racing at the Speed of Art
Erik Parker says he has never taken a class in color theory. "I just like things to be charged and relentless," he said as he showed a visitor around his studio in Greenpoint, Brooklyn...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Erik Parker: Crisis Creation
Erik Parker's comically grotesque, neo-psychedelic paintings are a trip. Working under the influence of acid-rock posters, underground comics, Mad magazine, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Peter Saul and Ed Roth, who was known as Big Daddy, Mr. Parker has created a series of zany, neon-bright imaginary portraits...
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ART REVIEW
Post Negative Eugenics - What's That?
The Final Section of Michel Houellebecq's Les Particules Elementaires (1998) offers a retrospective account of human development after a 'paradigm shift' in the course of our genetic evolution. That shift occurred,we learn, when one of the book's protagonists, the tragically solitary Michel, a molecular biologist, does evolution one better by perfecting the means (via cloning) to make the process of sexual reproduction obsolete...
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