CONTACT
parkergthornton@gmail.com
IG @yoni_bologna
BIO
Parker Thornton is an artist and writer who lives and works in Atlanta, GA. She earned her BA in English Literature and Studio Art from Oglethorpe University in 2013 and her MFA in Photography from Georgia State University in 2020. Her practice ranges from lens-based media to sculpture, writing, and performance. She has exhibited work nationally at Whitespace, Historic Oakland Cemetery, and SOUP Experimental. Parker was the 2020 winner of the Andrew M. West Scholarship at Georgia State University. In 2019, she was an artist in residence at Burren College of Art in Ballyvaughan, Ireland. That year she was also granted a scholarship to attend Anderson Ranch Art Center, and won Best in Show at Day and Night Projects.
ARTIST STATEMENT
What does the body do, and what do we do to it? I’m interested in the body as a representation of the way we experience the world. Through photography, performance, and sculpture I try to understand the ways the body is politicized, aestheticized, and commodified. Psychosexual dynamics and intimate relationships are the basis of these investigations. Unconventional methods and materials in the work serve to abstract, distort, and obscure the human form or the way it’s typically presented.
parkergthornton@gmail.com
IG @yoni_bologna
BIO
Parker Thornton is an artist and writer who lives and works in Atlanta, GA. She earned her BA in English Literature and Studio Art from Oglethorpe University in 2013 and her MFA in Photography from Georgia State University in 2020. Her practice ranges from lens-based media to sculpture, writing, and performance. She has exhibited work nationally at Whitespace, Historic Oakland Cemetery, and SOUP Experimental. Parker was the 2020 winner of the Andrew M. West Scholarship at Georgia State University. In 2019, she was an artist in residence at Burren College of Art in Ballyvaughan, Ireland. That year she was also granted a scholarship to attend Anderson Ranch Art Center, and won Best in Show at Day and Night Projects.
ARTIST STATEMENT
What does the body do, and what do we do to it? I’m interested in the body as a representation of the way we experience the world. Through photography, performance, and sculpture I try to understand the ways the body is politicized, aestheticized, and commodified. Psychosexual dynamics and intimate relationships are the basis of these investigations. Unconventional methods and materials in the work serve to abstract, distort, and obscure the human form or the way it’s typically presented.