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Sojourner Truth Parsons

Born in Vancouver, BC, Canada, 1984. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
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Exhibition view: Summer ’22, Esther Schipper, Berlin, 2022. Photo © Andrea Rossetti

Introduction

Sojourner Truth Parsons work has an emotionally charged quality: it suggests an underlying narrative that is open-ended and ambiguous rather than rigid and settled. Oblique references to figures and objects appear but their significance remains shrouded.

 

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Selected works

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Sojourner Truth Parsons
Dark blue Bells IV, 2023-2024
Acrylic on canvas
182,9 x 152,4 cm (72 x 60 in) (6 x 5 ft)
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Sojourner Truth Parsons
The wind blows it rattles, I close my eyes, 2023
Acrylic on canvas

274,3 x 213,4 cm
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Sojourner Truth Parsons
Peaceful witness of sorrow III, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
121,9 x 106,7 cm (48 x 42 in) (4' x 3' 6'')
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Sojourner Truth Parsons
Peaceful witness of sorrow IV, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
121,9 x 106,7 cm (48 x 42 in) (4' x 3' 6'')
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Sojourner Truth Parsons
You will get older, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
274,3 x 213,4 cm 
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Sojourner Truth Parsons
New York, 2023
Acrylic on canvas

254,3 x 203,5 x 3,8 cm
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Sojourner Truth Parsons
Every day of winter, 2023
Acrylic on canvas

244 x 183 x 4,5 cm
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Sojourner Truth Parsons
Rain on leaves, 2023
Acrylic on canvas

244 x 183 x 4,5 cm
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Sojourner Truth Parsons
End of April beginning of May, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
Set of 15 paintings
76,3 x 61,5 cm (30 x 24 1/4 in) (2,5 x 2 ft) (each, 15 parts)
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Sojourner Truth Parsons
An effect of light II, 2023
Acrylic on canvas

152,4 x 121,9 cm
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Sojourner Truth Parsons
An effect of light III, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
101,6 x 86,4 cm
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Sojourner Truth Parsons
blue goes away, 2022

Acrylic, canvas, archival glue on linen

168 x 152 cm
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Sojourner Truth Parsons
Adult alone, 2022

Acrylic, canvas, archival glue on linen

167,5 x 168 x 4 cm
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Sojourner Truth Parsons
Perfect four days, 2022

Acrylic on linen

152,5 x 152,5 x 4 cm
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Sojourner Truth Parsons
Fear Two, 2022

Acrylic on canvas

30,5 x 23 cm each (8 parts, unframed)
32,3 x 24,7 cm each (8 parts, framed)
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Sojourner Truth Parsons
Fear One, 2022

Acrylic on linen

76 x 61 cm each (2 parts, unframed)
78 x 61,9 cm each (2 parts, framed)
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Sojourner Truth Parsons
Falling out of love with you, 2020-2021

Acrylic on canvas

213,2 x 182 x 3,8 cm
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Sojourner Truth Parsons
Pray for Sex, 2020-2021

Acrylic on canvas

248,5 x 202,8 x 5 cm
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Sojourner Truth Parsons
July Tree, 2020-2021

Acrylic on canvas

213,5 x 183 x 4 cm

Gallery Exhibitions

If nobody wants you you're free Sojourner Truth Parsons

If nobody wants you you're free

Sojourner Truth Parsons
Esther Schipper is pleased to present Sojourner Truth Parsons' solo exhibition If n obody w ants y ou y ou’re f ree , the artist’s first with the gallery. On view will be all new paintings.
June 8—July 6, 2023
Esther Schipper, Berlin
Summer '22 With Sarah Buckner, Ann Veronica Janssens, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Cemile Sahin, Julia Scher, Sun Yitian and Tao Hui

Summer '22

With Sarah Buckner, Ann Veronica Janssens, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Cemile Sahin, Julia Scher, Sun Yitian and Tao Hui
Esther Schipper is pleased to present Summer ’22, a group exhibition with works by Sarah Buckner, Ann Veronica Janssens, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Cemile Sahin, Julia Scher, Sun Yitian and Tao Hui.
July 21—August 27, 2022
Esther Schipper, Berlin
L'Invitation au voyage with works by Sarah Buckner, Cui Jie, Cordula Ditz, Almut Heise, Hannah Höch, Leiko Ikemura, Tala Madani,...

L'Invitation au voyage

with works by Sarah Buckner, Cui Jie, Cordula Ditz, Almut Heise, Hannah Höch, Leiko Ikemura, Tala Madani, Isa Melsheimer, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Paula Rego, Shahzia Sikander, Tsai Yi-Ting, and Yeesookyung
Esther Schipper is pleased to present L’Invitation au voyage, an exhibition of painting on the long history of travelling in your imagination, through fantasy or dreams, and ideas of the body as...
April 28—June 20, 2021
Esther Schipper, Berlin

External Exhibitions

Holding Your Dog At Night Sojourner Truth Parsons

Holding Your Dog At Night

Sojourner Truth Parsons
With their canny palette and crude perspective, the paintings of Sojourner Truth Parsons readily dispense with distinctions between interior and exterior worlds. Rendering the atmospheric and emotive energies she encounters as lucidly...
March 26—May 28, 2017
Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Ontario

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Vibrant Worlds: Sojourner Truth Parsons at Esther Schipper

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Now Representing – Sojourner Truth Parsons
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Now Representing – Sojourner Truth Parsons

Esther Schipper is delighted to announce representation of Sojourner Truth Parsons. 'I am looking at art through my heart. Maybe that's selfish, but I want to find something I didn't know was...

Films

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L'Invitation au voyage

Group Exhibition
In this short film we take you on a room-by-room tour of L’Invitation au voyage, introducing the work of the thirteen participating artists. 

L’Invitation au voyage included works by Sarah Buckner, Cui Jie, Cordula Ditz, Almut Heise, Hannah Höch, Leiko Ikemura, Tala Madani, Isa Melsheimer, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Paula Rego, Shahzia Sikander, Tsai Yi-ting, and Yeesookyung.

Publications

L’Invitation au voyage Sarah Buckner, Cui Jie, Cordula Ditz, Almut Heise, Hannah Höch, Leiko Ikemura, Tala Madani, Isa Melsheimer, Sojourner...

L’Invitation au voyage

Sarah Buckner, Cui Jie, Cordula Ditz, Almut Heise, Hannah Höch, Leiko Ikemura, Tala Madani, Isa Melsheimer, Sojourner Truth Parsons, Paula Rego, Shahzia Sikander, Tsai Yi-Ting, and Yeesookyung
Photo © Andrea Rossetti
2021