the art and life of eunice parsons: September 2009

September 22, 2009

art adventure show...

the show at art adventure gallery in madras is in it's final week

the last venue in the summer long series of shows featuring over 40 years of eunice's work

see it while you can

blue room, 2009 collage

September 14, 2009

queen for a day

the reception was well attended and the show looks great

see it before it ends sunday, 9/20

September 09, 2009

the hallie ford reception

is this sunday, the 13th, at 2:30 - eunice will be there!

see the show in it's final weeks (closes 9/20)

This is a blog about Eunice...

Eunice Parsons, born in 1916 in Loma, Colorado, grew up in Chicago. As a child, she drew constantly. At ten, she attended lectures at the Art Institute of Chicago and was exposed to the magnificent collections there under the tutelage of an enthusiastic instructor. After marriage at age 20, she moved with her husband to Portland. By 1948, she was raising three children while her merchant seaman husband was away for long periods of time. Responding to her continued need to make art, she set up a studio in the her basement and began to draw her children and their friends. Frustration at trying to teach herself art led her to enroll at the Museum Art School. She was 34 years old and and desired nothing more than to become a full-time artist.

Eunice went on to teach at the Museum School from 1957 - 1979.

Through the years she has been a painter, a printmaker and a tilemaker, but since the early 1970s Eunice has worked in the medium for which she is best known- collage.