American artist Erik Parker (b. 1968) started out by making cartoon-like maps and flow charts of different subcultures in the early 1990s. His paintings today are often much larger and consist of tiny carefully drawn elements in a variety of colors. What seems to be random crowds of whimsy details turns out to form alternative figures, faces and organic creatures. Erik Parker's accumulations of small detailed ornaments are an interesting example of how the figure is still taken new places after masters such as Picasso and Francis Bacon. With his bright colors and curvy flows of psychedelic forms Parker creates a surrealistic expressionism with written tags to a style completely of his own.
