Maggie Parr received her BA in fine arts from Pomona College in 1989. Soon after graduating, she was hired as the youngest show designer at Walt Disney Imagineering, where she designed notable theme park attractions. She continued her art education at Pasadena Art Center College of Design. After four years, she decided to go freelance in order to devote more time to her painting. Since then, Parr has exhibited her work in galleries in Los Angeles and New York, and has studied with Steven Assael, Cheryl Kline, Jeremy Lipking, and Steve Huston. She also maintains a successful commercial art and design firm which produces murals, portraits, illustrations, and architectural design. She works from her Los Angeles studio, traveling occasionally to paint murals on location and consult on special design projects. Her art has been published in several books and exhibition catalogs. Click here for exhibitions and publications, and here to see Maggie Parr's commercial art.

"As a narrative oil painter, I explore the tensions between binaries – individual and society, industry and humanity, sacred and profane – in search of connections. My work explores these networks of relations through shapes and concepts, the space between the personal and universal and, most importantly, the artist and viewer. I use vibrant colors and bold or jarring imagery to provoke emotional reactions. My figures are deconstructed and integrated with non-human objects, both industrial and organic, in order to create transgressive beings. The core essence of these new beings is my primary interest, and I assert their transcendent energy on the surface of my canvas."