Lora Schlesinger’s East Gallery features Picturing When, Beth Parker’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Beth’s paintings analyze the presence that television and film have in Los Angeles and in her life. In her small devotional paintings, references to television and film reflect the intimacy and the emotional connections we share as a collective audience when watching these fictional narratives. Beth carefully selects stills, and renders them meticulously with oil paint, a medium that has been used to immortalize icons and narratives for centuries. Though the light of a flickering screen transmits the majority of information today, narratives were once conveyed through painting and stained glass windows, preserving and elevating their subjects. Beth’s paintings combine billboards, stills and Los Angeles street scenes portrayed in a stained glass style. Exploring the physicality of oil paint, she methodically applies transparent layers of pigment, creating intimate paintings that examine the roles that television and film play in our lives. Beth Parker received her MFA at Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Art, Indiana University and her BFA at Maryland Institute College of Art. She was the recipient of Indiana University’s College of Arts and Sciences Fellowship, Mary Jane McIntire Fellowship and Friends of Art Fellowship in 2011. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

Single Screen, 2012 oil on panel 16 x 34-3/4 x 13-1/4 "

Older Brother, Wilshire Blvd, 2014 oil on panel 8 x 6 "

Older Brother, Wilshire Blvd, 2014 oil on panel 8 x 6 "

Stand By Me, 2014 oil on panel 7 x 5"

Stand By Me, 2014 oil on panel 7 x 5"

Blank Slate, 2014 oil on panel 5 x 7”

Golden Age, 2014 oil on panel 8 x 6 "

Clueless Spadena, 2014 oil on panel 9 x 12"

Forward Rewind, 2011 oil on panel 5-1/2" x 8 '

La Brea Prop Shop, 2015 ink on panel 6 x 6"

Little Brother Drums, 2008 oil on canvas 10 x 8 "

Airplane, 2010

oil on panel 8 x 6 "

Welcome to Los Angeles, 2014 oil on panel 6 x 6"

BETH PARKER EDUCATION 2010 – 2012 Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, Indiana University

MFA, Studio Art, Painting 2006 – 2009 Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)

BFA, Painting Major, Art History Minor, Literary Studies Minor Summa Cum Laude

AWARDS 2010 – 2011 Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Fellowship

Mary Jane McIntire Fellowship Friends of Art Fellowship

2009 Maryland Institute College of Art Language and Literature Departmental Award 2006 – 2009 Maryland Institute College of Art Dean’s List Maryland Institute College of Art Painting Departmental Recognition

Award 2006 – 2009 Rebecca and Joseph Meyerhoff Scholarship

Trustee Scholarship Academic Honors Scholarship

2006 Third Congressional District Competition Winner SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2015 Picturing When, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica 2013 Summer Group Show, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica 2012 Our Extended Family, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Grunwald Gallery Bloomington, IN 2011 Magnitude 7, Manifest Gallery

Cincinnati, Ohio Pygmalion's Cool Yellow Juried Art Show, Pygmalion's Art Supplies Award Winner (First Place Cash Prize) Bloomington, IN Indiana University School of Fine Arts MFA Painting Show, SoFA Gallery Bloomington, IN

2010 BFA Thesis Show, MICA Baltimore, MD

Disegno 3: Contemporary Undergraduate Drawing, MICA, Kansas City Art Institute, University of South Carolina Baltimore, MD, Kansas City, MO, Columbia, SC

2009 Small Works: Auction and Silent Auction, The Light Gallery Baltimore, MD Small Paintings by Juniors and Seniors, MICA Baltimore, MD Selected Work by Juniors and Seniors, MICA Baltimore, MD First Annual Local Artists Exhibition, Definition Gallery Baltimore, MD Reaccreditation Exhibition, MICA Baltimore, MD Parent’s Weekend Exhibition, MICA Baltimore, MD

2008 A Dozen Echoes, Definition Gallery Baltimore, MD Painting Department Exhibition, MICA Baltimore, MD

2007 “High Touch Meets High Tech” Exhibition, MICA, Baltimore, MD Foundation Show, MICA Baltimore, MD Group Exhibition, International School of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture Montecastello di Vibio, Umbria, Italy

2006 Selected Paintings, Watermark Gallery Baltimore, MD Congressional District Competition Winners Exhibition, Lincoln Tunnel Washington, DC

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY 2012 – current Gallery Associate, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2011 – 2012 Associate Instructor, Fundamentals Drawing, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 2010 Assistant for Art Dealer, Washington, DC Artist-In-Residence, Gilman School, Baltimore, MD 2009 Guest Speaker/Visiting Artist for AP Drawing Course at MICA Guest Speaker for AP Senior English Class at Bryn Mawr School 2008 Gallery Assistant for Definition Gallery, Baltimore, MD 2008 Intern for Definition Gallery, Baltimore, MD Representative of MICA Painting Department in the Annual MICA and

University of Baltimore Leadership Retreat BIBLIOGRAPHY Manifest Gallery, International Painting Annual 2, exhibition-in-print, 2012 Manifest Gallery, 7th Annual Magnitude 7 Catalog, 2011 City Beat, Rites of Passage and Magnitude 7 (Review), 2011