In homage: The Selected Works of Randall Warren Parker

The Worcester Center for Crafts’ Mary & Van Aroian Community Gallery Presents…
The Selected Works of Randall Warren Parker

On View: May 2 – 23, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, May 2 | 3-5pm

This creative artist with an exceptional eye for skillfully translating captured moments and images to the canvas or photographic film/digital lived a full (“everything but [actually including] the kitchen sink”) but short, 41-year life.

Born in 1951, and raised in Western Mass., he was a product of the Agawam school system-where in high school (a 1969 graduate) he flourished under the tutelage of his art teacher, winning first prize in an art competition for painting a hauntingly realistic mirrored landscape, among some of his 41 years’ work on display here at the Worcester Center for Crafts.

Randall earned a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the University of Massachusetts in 1973, and then moved to New York City where he lived and worked for several years.  Besides his love of painting, he was also a freelance portrait photographer; doing a great deal of work with ‘headshot’ Susan Schacter, a photographer in New York City – while ‘maintaining between commissions’ by also working at Le Train Blue Restaurant in Bloomingdale’s Department Store.

With artistic abilities as broad as his brush strokes (excelling with canvas work in: pencil, pen and ink, acrylic, and Prismacolor) his “trademark was bold and invigorating colors” of the ‘Beautiful People’ (e.g. Streisand, Monroe, Jagger, Warhol, etc.), as well as landscapes: painted, as well as digitally-captured through his ever-present camera lens.  

Randall returned to Agawam from New York City in 1989 and passed away in 1992.

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Sunday: 10am-5pm
Monday: 10am-5pm
Tuesday: 10am-5pm
Wednesday: 10am-5pm
Thursday: 10am-5pm
Friday: 10am-5pm
Saturday: 10am-5pm