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Pat Parth Biographical Information
Parth's selected exhibitions include:
Tenth Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil; The International Society
of Plastic and Audio Visual Arts traveling exhibitions to: Singapore,
Malaysia, Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Brazil;
and The World's Women On-Line! United Nations Fourth World Conference
on Women, Beijing, China.
Parth's work does not easily fall into one single discipline but rather a multi-disciplinary, multi-media, mixed-media and conceptual. She even conceptualizes her abstract painting. In her own words, "These paintings can be arranged and rearranged subjectively and thus incorporating audience's and curator's participation. The art work crosses the lines of painting, sculpture, and installation. The medium becomes ambiguous and abstract. The title denotes a dichotomy of construction and deconstruction. The miniature size of the works calls for intimacy and devoids heroism and masculinity of the earlier Abstract Expressionism. The images are displayed in the like manner of framed portraits (non-representation) on tables-and not as wall paintings..."Abstracted Abstract Abstraction."
In most cases, the use of word and imagery are integral in her work. "I" is Parth's self- portrait in which "i-words" are incorporated into the images in attempt to explain/describe about her very self. But words do not really explain/describe..."I"
"A-words, I-words, D-words,
and S-words" is the title of her digital work that consists
of more than one hundred different slides of words and images.
She projects them on a built nomadic tent's wall as one piece
of art work among six other works under the main installation
entitled "The Age of Alienation." The installation is
on view from October 4 to 20,1996 at 720 Alameda Street, the site
of DOWNTOWN LIVES '96. Her web site address, http://www.westworld.com/~pparth,
provides viewers with a subjective/interactive experience of the
installation. Parth's concept of the present day global village
is presented with sound effects in addition to the visual images
under the title, "Tower of Bable." The site, as of October
1996, also serves as her personal bulletin board. Invitations/announcements
of exhibitions, viewers's feed back and more can be accessed.
Her other address, http://wwol.inre.asu.edu/parth.html, displays
her digital art,"Diversity" among works of eight hundred
international artists. Parth embraces technological changes whole-heartedly.
She had stopped making art (images/objects) for over two decades.
With the age of information (access/connectivity) and the global
cultures, she now makes her presence and voice heard again. Art
can inform -not transform, but art can also reawaken our senses.
Grants:The
Cultural Affairs Department of Los Angeles 1996-97
The Arts Recovery Fund, a collaborative effort of the J.P. Getty
Trust Fund, the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, the National
Endownment for the Arts, California Arts Council, A T & T,
California Foundation, Los Angeles Art Association, and the Times
Mirror Company 1992.
California State University Los Angeles: M.F.A.; M.A.
Miami University: B.F.A.
Studies: Royal College of Art, London, England.
Ecoles d'Art Americaines, Fontainebleau, France
Pat Parth (Puangpej Parthornratt), born in Bangkok, Thailand,
resides in Los Angeles since 1981.
http://wwol.inre.asu.edu/parth.html
http://www.westworld.com/~pparth
e-mail: pparth @westworld.com tel/fax: 12136667465