Ink and Acrylic on Canvas

36” x 36”

2024

Clay Parker - rapidly recounting stories and jumping topics, all while greeting friends at The Grog Shop - finds inspiration in Content.He “can’t ignore the crazy shit that’s going on,” and his work springs from the daily headlines. Clay himself is a cyclone, relating stories of his younger days when - disgruntled with the gallery scene - he embarked on a career of guerrilla art: posters and flyers for punk rock bands and large scale murals. While he describes his recent work as “gentler and less bludgeoning” - the effects of fatherhood and a bout with cancer - there’s a palpable yearning for justice in the patterns, rhythms, and black and white palette of these darkly comic pieces.