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This web site presents
the work of Esther Parada accompanied by texts taken from her writings.
When the Bough Breaks, 2004
The Monroe Doctrine, 1988
Memory Warp, 1980
Peace Corp in Bolivia, 1968
Selected
Exhibitions
Click links to learn more about Parada's work.
2005 To Make the Desert Bloom, a work-in-progress.
2004 When
The Bough Breaks, multi-media solo exhibition at Gallery 312, Chicago,
IL
2001 Three Acres on the Lake: DuSable Park Proposal
Project (a public art project initiated by Laurie Palmer), Gallery
312, Chicago, IL
1998 Canopy: A Meditation on the Demise of
the American Elm, (solo exhibition), Bunting Institute, Radcliffe
College, Cambridge, MA
1998 “Native Fruits” a photo-text
work published in New World [Dis]Orders and Peripheral Strains, published
by MARCH/Abrazo Press, Chicago; pp. 36-37
1996 Transplant: A Tale of Three Continents,
part of La Finca/The Homestead, a website project, organized by Paul Hertz
(Northwestern Univ.) on theme of colonization, for the University of Valencia,
Spain
1995-96 Dig.Cultivation, website sponsored
by Montage Gallery and Design Research Centre, Derby, England
1992 Who Dis/Covers — Who Dis/Colors:
installation at Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago
1991 ArgusAuge: ISARprojekt 91: Fotografie Am Königsplatz. Parada's
project Heimat Bayern: für wen? was
one of six site-specific public artworks created by an international group
of artists at the Königsplatz, Munich, Germany.
1991 2-3-4-D: Digital Revisions in Time and
Space; California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA.
1990 Define/Defy the Frame; offset lithography
artist’s book/poster published by University Art Gallery, SUNY Binghamton,
Binghamton, N.Y.
1989 Option/Shift a Macintosh computer-generated
artist’s book/collaboration between Esther Parada and critic Deborah
Bright, published by the Platen Press, University of Colorado
1988 The Monroe Doctrine: Theme and Variations,
Part I, portfolio of 42 [8” x 10”] documents reproduced
by offset lithography, with laserprint on vellum coversheet, published
by the Platen Press, University of Colorado
1986 Whose News???
1986 Who Was Smedley Butler?, poster 18”
x 24”, printed in an edition of 1000, offset lithography, b &
w duotone
1984 “C/Overt Ideology: Two Images of
Revolution,” pp. 7-16, Afterimage, Vol. 11, # 8, March.
1980 Memory Warp
1980 Past Recovery
1976 Site Unseen: Fragments of an American Burial,
MoMing Gallery, Chicago
1968 Peace Corps
