Catalog by David Pagel, 2007
“R. Nelson Parrish’s 8-foot-tall untitled sculpture leans against the wall like a ladder, its sleek, fiberglass and resin coated surface recalling surfboards and John McCracken’s planks from the 1960’s. Candy-colored band, both translucent and opaque, cut horizontally across the vertical work, setting up jaunty visual rhythms that cause the eye to rebound, rather swiftly, back and forth, as you scan the stripes from to to bottom and back again. Parrish has left about half of the mass produced-board’s surface visible, suggesting that the cheap material – the lumber yard equivalent of baloney – has its own scrappy beauty, and that recycled stuff can be as elegant as anything else.”
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