Born in 1984 in Vancouver, she lives and works in New York.
Sojourner Truth Parsons’ work has an emotionally charged quality: it suggests an underlying narrative that is open-ended and ambiguous rather than rigid and settled. Oblique references to women bodies, flora and fauna, city and objects appear but their significance remains shrouded. The graphic clarity of Parsons’ compositions functions as a misdirection, as color and shape, borrowing some aspects of the American Colorfield, remain in continuous flux, oscillating between representation and abstraction.
The artist is named after Sojourner Truth, a 19th-century Black abolitionist and women’s rights activist.
Graduated from Novia Scotia College of Arts & Design of Halifax (Canada). Parsons’ work is included in the collections of The National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa; Museum Voorlinden, Wassenar; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Oakville Galleries; Portland Museum of Art; and Long Museum in Shanghai.
Esther Schipper (Berlin, Paris, New York, Seoul)
Photo courtesy © Cub
