Claudia Parducci | Ochi Gallery

 Claudia Parducci is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice spans drawing, painting, and sculpture as she explores the dizzying elasticity of time, perceptually morphed by the mundane repetitions and emotional exertions of human experience—including but not limited to the pleasures and tedium of making art. With an evolving interest in histories of destruction and reconstruction, Parducci’s earlier work focused on the impact of human conflict and natural disasters before shifting toward the nature of the cycle itself—the idea that we are always somewhere in the process of building and tearing down.After a lifetime in Los Angeles and recently widowed, Parducci relocated to upstate New York.In rural solitude and far from familiar rhythms, communities, habits, and locales, Parducci experienced the rupture of a years-long discourse with her late partner, causing a shift in perspective. In the immediate aftermath of profound loss, Parducci lost the ability to work at all. When she did return to the studio, she began by limiting her materials to those left behind by her late partner: a handful of canvases, some sawhorses, and a box of blue soft pastels. What emerged was a series of works that embody both chance and impermanence, echoing the way the material world of organisms does not ever entirely disappear, but evolves into something unnamable. Claudia Parducci received both her BFA and MFA from California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita, CA. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including Museo Archeologica Arte Contemporanea in Cisternino, Italy; Estudio Las Nieves in Bogota, Colombia; Museum of Contemporary Art in Tijuana, Mexico; University City Art Museum in Guangzhou, China; Thomas Zander in Cologne, Germany; Torrance Art Museum in Torrance, CA; Brand Library & Art Center in Glendale, CA; Bakersfield Museum of Art in Bakersfield, CA; California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks in Thousand Oaks, CA; Palos Verdes Art Center in Palos Verdes, CA; Craig Krull Gallery and Sloan Projects in Santa Monica, CA; and Nye+Brown and OCHI in Los Angeles, CA. Parducci’s work has been featured and reviewed in publications including Los Angeles Times, Artillery Magazine, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, Whitehot Magazine, and LA Weekly. Parducci lives and works in upstate New York and is represented by OCHI.