Santa Barbara Magazine April/May 2009:
“‘I’m best when I’m moving,’ says R. Nelson Parrish of his peak creative mode, though he may as well be talking about his art-on view May 7th through June 28th in ‘From the Studio,’ an Edward Cella Art +Architecture group show hosted at Cabana Home. Mixed-media pieces that sample the dynamic colors and forms from the worlds of surfing and snow sports, Parrish’s works (from $3000) are emblazoned with stripes that at once evoke Alaska Native iconography and the So Cal surf culture. The Fairbanks-born Santa Barbaran gravitated towards art in the mid 1990’s while at the University of Nevada-after an injury kept him from his first love: alpine ski racing. He went on to pursue an MFA at UCSB, studying color theory until a few weeks before he graduated in 2006. It was then that he had the epiphany to converge his Alaskan youth with action sports. His final show didn’t make history, but it’s style delighted gallerist Edward Cella, who signed Parrish then and there.” – D.J. Pallandino
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