Artists

Sojourner Truth Parsons

Press release

Esther Schipper Paris is pleased to announce Sooner or later you will call my name, Sojourner Truth Parsons's second solo exhibition with the gallery and her first in Paris, where she will debut a suite of new paintings. Parsons's practice ties the study of light to the desires and fantasies that color our perception of the world. Celestial bodies, flowers, and her home city's high-rises serve as anchoring forms in works that speak of a time of loss, isolation, and also resurgence. The atmospheric temperature of her environments – such as her neighborhood, her studio, or her garden – are distilled into their emotional essence. From coats of black acrylic paint, arise iridescent shapes and shimmering surfaces, painted with thin washes in acutely tactile brushstrokes.