Lot
26
Pining Away
Monotype on Stonehenge paper, 2022
76 x 56 cm
1/1
Estimate
$4 000
Pining Away is a monotype print that depicts a magical world, in which disembodied figures are seeking to interact and longing for one another, set in an abstracted forested context. The double-entendre of the title refers both to the trees and to the hopeful but melancholy feeling expressed by the figures themselves and by the piece as a whole. A certain kind of atmospheric loveliness, and powerful feeling prevail within the partially flattened but still recessive pictorial space.
Biographical note
Bea Parsons is a printmaker, drawer, and painter, originally from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, now living and working in Montreal. She holds a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal and an MFA from Columbia University in New York City. She is a full-time professor of painting and drawing at Concordia. Her practice has primarily focused on black-and-white monoprints and, most recently, coloured-pencil drawings on archival paper. Her haunting and seductive world is filled with characters, landscapes, and symbols culled from a wide variety of sources, from the personal, to the esoteric, to the art-historical. A highly recognizable and intimate style of graphic and abstracted motifs congregates in these compositions, creating a pleasurable and emotionally charged pictorial atmosphere. She has recently had solo exhibitions at Franz Kaka in Toronto and Tappeto Volante in New York City. Her works have been acquired by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Musée de Joliette, Hydro-Québec, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank, and Equitable Bank.
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