Volusia County Courthouse - Phil Parker

Justitia, 2001
Mixed media

Phil Parker
Flagler Beach, Fla.
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Phil Parker works with a wide variety of materials and processes including handmade papers, fabricated objects, painting, drawing, printing and digital imaging. All are merged into carefully designed and fabricated assemblages that reference a variety of cultural and theological themes, including myth, religion and science.

His work is included in the collections of the Florida Museum of Art, Florida House of Representatives, the Norton Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, the Atlantic Center for the Arts and other collections outside Florida. 

Parker earned his bachelor of fine arts degree from Florida Atlantic University and has served as artist-in-residence in Volusia and Flagler counties. He has countless outdoor art festival awards to his credit, including the Winter Park Art Festival, Mainsail Art Festival, Disney's Festival of the Masters and the DeLand Fall Festival of the Arts. He has been awarded the Florida Visual Arts Fellowship by the State of Florida. 

“I have chosen to represent this law archetype in the context of time and space, using the female figure as a vehicle to explore various aspects of all law. The sub-themes of word, language, judicial law, the laws of nature, cosmic law, and mythology will be the guiding concepts that are interpreted through design, material and compositional arrangement. The narrative in this piece is somewhat obvious and basic. I hope the design elements reveal the often overlooked aspects of the universal, cosmic, and judicial laws that govern us and present the concept of law as both personal and universal in origin and function.” – Phil Parker