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"Waiting" by Parker MacCready
24 x 30 inches
oil on linen
$100 donation to the charity of your choice
Artist Statement:
I have been drawing my whole life, enchanted by the magic that turns simple lines and marks into compelling images. The accumulated drawings are an illustrated diary of my past. They are different from photos because each represents a pause where I let myself fall into that calm place of gazing for a long time.
After a long career studying ocean physics, I have taken up oil painting. Does my other life as a scientist overlap with my art? I suppose it must. When I look at clouds I think of the release of heat from water vapor condensing into particles. When I look at the surface of Puget Sound I see the pattern of converging currents underneath.
Lately my paintings are focused my family and on abandoned places in downtown Olympia.
About the Artist:
MacCready studied drawing and sculpture at Yale, receiving a BA in Architecture. He has studied oil painting with Kathy Gore-Fuss in Olympia since 2023. He lives and works in Olympia, WA, and has been a Professor in the University of Washington School of Oceanography since 1994.
Group Show: "First Stop" at Childhood's End Gallery in Olympia, May 2025.
Group Show: "Southwest Washington Regional Juried Exhibition" at South Puget Sound Community College, July-August 2025. MERIT AWARD
Invited Artist Talk, SPSCC Leonore R. Fuller Gallery, August 2025.
Group Show: "Juror's Invitational" at SPSCC, April 2026.
Group Show: "First Stop" at Copper Wolf in Olympia, May 2026.
Group Show: "Southwest Washington Regional Juried Exhibition" at South Puget Sound Community College, July-August 2026."
