Caitlin Parker

(1975-)

Caitlin Parker is an artist who has been heavily influenced by the sight of the moving image on film and television. Many of her paintings are subtle references to famous movies and television programs. Her works seek to capture the banal and often unnoticed scenes that occur in typically glitzy Hollywood productions. Usually based on photographic stills pulled from individual sequences of events, Parker tends to choose ones that are inconspicuous and quotidian in content. Parker then arranges for friends and models to reenact the scenes, which she then films and photographs. These are used as the basis for her paintings, which are done on canvases that are contoured in the shape of a television screen. The artist’s technique not only portrays a beguilingly photo realistic image, it also mimics the bands that can be seen stretching across a real television screen. They are especially reminiscent of the tracking lines that are appear when a VCR has been paused.