The tangled web of organic material, creating a solid mass of colorful flesh...Erik Parker has done an amazing job in this colorful, hyper decorative portrait...The context of the portrait, referencing the religious donor portraits...the style also alludes to the works of Jim Nutt, but with a urban, street twist...
The placement is central and frontal, visually we are focused on one and only symmetrical form...the concentric, halo form around the head is complex and unusual, not expected and dynamic...it is geometric and hard edged to contrast the drippy line forms in the head to create interest...the angle of the stripes visually carry the eye around...darker values behind to head to recede the shapes into space...bright and intense hues pull the viewer to the front and continue to the focus to the foreground...
The graphic, hard edge quality is interesting in contrast to the fragmented, organic line masses...creating an overall contemporary feel on a very traditional context...
He is not my kind of colorist. This work is too saturated and without unity. Looks like Britto on acid. Next.
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