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May 22, 2019

Through the Window of a Gen Z Artist

Odd Couple, 2019

 

by Artina Dozier-Gage

 

As I looked at the artwork of Whitney Parrish, a 17 year old senior at Arts Academy in the Woods high school I was taken by the expressiveness of the choices she made with her palette. The colors in her paintings are an interesting weave or dance between an idyllic, childlike interpretation that is vivid and spirited with that of a more muted, somewhat serene tone that one can only begin to grasp and express more fully with age. This all made sense to me considering not long ago Whitney would be considered a child, yet at once she is on the cusp of full womanhood—a very young woman, but still a woman nontheless.READ MORE