MULTIDIMENSIONAL EXPERIENCES OF COLOR / LIGHT / SPACE
ELEGANT / VIBRANT / SHEER / INDOOR / OUTDOOR / SITE-SPECIFIC
INTERACTIVE / OPTIMISTIC / INSPIRATIONAL
Shelley Parriott’s Color Field Sculpture® creations have been exhibited and collected in her native New York City, throughout the Hudson Valley
of New York, the USA and Europe. She has received numerous honors and awards. Her solo exhibition of multiple large-scale sculptural installations inaugurated the ‘Plein Air’ Gallery at The Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, Florida, where radiant ‘Color Fields’ were inspired by the luminous Florida sky.
CONCEPT
"One can use form to describe the element in us that is free of form."
Author Unknown
Solid / Sheer
Visually and conceptually, Color Field Sculpture® installations simultaneously present a dichotomy and an integration between the corporeal
and the intangible – our physical and spiritual aspects. Monumental in size and visual impact, yet illusory, transparent layers play in the
changing light to describe: material / immaterial, being / non - being, and the transitory nature of form.
From miniature interior wall pieces to large-scale installations, Parriott’s concept begins with our passage through existence:
“existence is the medium through which every aspect of being is transformed.” Overlapping layers of experience translate into
sheer sculptural layers that interact with each other, the participant, and the environment.
Largest scale site-specific configurations invite viewers to enter into and move through the sculpture - transitioning through time, space,
prismatic patterns of color, blended tints, and optical illusions.
We question our conditioned perceptions and what seems to be, changes.
COLOR FIELD SCULPTURE® INSTALLATIONS TRANSFORM SPACE
Perforated heavy gauge aluminum is rolled, bent or folded by powerful presses as the sculptural concept emerges.
Permanent powder coated color is electrostatically applied to all components.
In a process of welding the artist’s vision to technical necessities, industrial materials are transformed from ordinary “workaday” existence into lyrical multi-dimensional expanses that immerse the viewer in vibrant fields of color.
As light passes through the transparency of the sculpture, the atmosphere shifts; shapes that at first glance appear to be solid and corporeal now elude definition. Mysterious shimmering nuances seem to appear/disappear, and take on an airy quality not usually associated with structurally sound large-scale sculpture.
Created in any size, shape or palette, indoors or out, suspended or anchored, varying hues enhance public spaces, interiors, landscapes, cityscapes, and private gardens - redefining the environment into a canvas of unlimited dimensions bounded only by the specifics of the site.
AWARDS / HONORS
Travel Grant, US Embassy Berlin. Awarded via Max Planck Institute
for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
Three artist invitational – New York Meets Berlin
Materials Subsidy provided by Lowe’s Corporation for outdoor structural installation
Kingston Sculpture Biennial, Kingston, NY
Curated by Judy Pfaff
Lorenzo il Magnifico Sculpture Medallion awarded by international jury including Barbara Rose and John T. Spike
Biennale Internazionale dell’ Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
Special Opportunity Stipend, NY Foundation for the Arts and NY State Council on the Arts administered
in Mid-Hudson by Garrison Art Center
Fellowship Grant, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, NYC
“Best in Show”, Art of the Northeast USA. Juried Competition
Silvermine Guild Arts Center, Silvermine, Connecticut
Juror: Susan Brundage, Director, Leo Castelli Gallery
“Exhibition Award”, National Juried Competition
Juror: Susan Harris, Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, at Viridian Gallery, NYC
Showcase Award, Manhattan Arts International Magazine, NYC
Lucile Blanch Award, Innovative Forms
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY
Project Grant, Awarded by Mayor of New York City, from the Citizens Committee for
New York, for Outstanding Cultural Contribution To NYC. Created and directed
“SPHERE, A Community Center for the Arts”
Artist in Residence, Lakes Art Center, Iowa Lakes Community College, Okoboji, IA
SELECTED LARGE-SCALE OUTDOOR EXHIBITIONS
Todd Brannon, Director of Installation Sites / Design Consultant
Kaatsbaan Cultural Center, Tivoli, NY, 2021
Rye Arts Center, Rye, New York
Mountain Jam Music Festival, Hunter Mountain, NY
Featuring Tom Petty
In collaboration with WDST Radio, Woodstock, NY
Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, Florida
Solo exhibition of multiple large-scale outdoor Color Field Sculpture Installations
Inaugurating the museum’s ‘Plein Air’ Gallery
The White Gallery, Lakeville, Connecticut, and Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Art Forms Gallery Project, Kingston, NY
WFG Gallery, Woodstock, NY
Edward Hopper House, birthplace of renowned American artist
Invitational exhibition, Nyack, NY
Yonkers City Hall Sculpture Park, Yonkers, NY
Reeves-Reed Arboretum, ‘Art in the Garden’ invitational,
and courthouse solo site, Summit, New Jersey
Noble Horizons, Solo Outdoor Exhibition
Color Field Sculpture environmental large-scale installations, Salisbury, Connecticut
DeSanti Plaza Outdoor Sculpture Project, Solo Installation
Hartsdale, NY
Kingston Outdoor Sculpture Biennial, Kingston NY Curated by Judy Pfaff.
Materials subsidized by Lowes Corporation
Artscape Outdoor Exhibition, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Rockland Center for the Arts, Sculpture Park, West Nyack, NY
Woodstock School of Art, Invitational, Woodstock, NY
Unison Arts and Learning Center, Invitational, New Paltz, New York
Byrdcliffe Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Woodstock, NY
SELECTED INDOOR VENUES
Venice Biennale, 2022, as part of the European Cultural Centre’s
( ECC) ‘Personal Structures’ exhibition through Phoenix Crowne’s installation “Leading Ladies.”
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Recycled/Revisited, New Paltz, NY
Featured sculptural installation, ‘Components of Passage’
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
Three artist invitational – New York meets Berlin
Galerie im Turm, Cologne, Germany
Abtei Brauweiler, Pulheim, Germany
Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
LS3P Architecture and Design, Solo Installation
Charleston, South Carolina
Woodstock Artists Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY
Solo and group exhibitions
Pfizer Inc., NYC, Weill Cornell, NYC
Washington Design Center, DC
Silvermine Guild Arts Center, Silvermine, Connecticut
Union Street Space, Brooklyn, NYC
AIR gallery NYC
Gallery @49 NYC
NoHo Gallery NYC
Art Institute of Boston, Massachusetts
RECENT COMMISSIONS & COLLECTORS
Synergy Investments
Government Center
2 Center Plaza
Boston, Massachusetts
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
Large-Scale Outdoor Interactive Installation
Cleveland, Ohio
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center / Location T
Large-scale outdoor sculptural installation
In collaboration with: Art Design Consultants, Kolar Design,
GBBN Architects and Messer Construction, Cincinnati, Ohio.
J D A V I S A R C H I T E C T S
“Creating Vibrant, Livable Communities”
Large-scale outdoor sculpture
Durham, North Carolina
Media 3 Ltd., Global Media Consultants
5th Av., NYC www.Liveshots.com
Apex CoVantage LLC Global Technology Solutions
Washington DC, India
Linden Sculpture Park
Christel DeHaan
Founder of Christel House International
Indianapolis, Indiana
Laura Blank & Mitchell Schlansky
NYC and Massachusetts
SELECTED PRESS
The New York Times, Art in the Garden, photo by Reeves - Reed Arboretum, Summit NJ
The New York Times, Color Field Sculpture, photo by Noble Horizons, Salisbury CT
The Litchfield Times, An Installation in Metal, written by Kathryn Boughton, Litchfield CT
The Woodstock Times, Ethereal Steel, written by Paul Smart, Woodstock NY
Sun Sentinel, Museum opens Outdoor Gallery
Solo Exhibition by Shelley Parriott, written by Jon Marcus, Broward County, FL
The Advocate & Greenwich Time, The Art of the Northeast
written by Carolee Ross, Greenwich, CT
The Saugerties Times, The Kingston Sculpture Biennial curated by Judy Pfaff
written by Erica Freudenberger, Saugerties, NY
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