About
Eric Parnes (b. 1979) is a Persian-American artist, focusing on the compelling and substantive discourse resulting from the impact of commercialism and successive interaction between the Middle East (Orient) and the Western world (West).
Parnes is well known for blending historic and popular culture motives within the context of “Orientalism” (leading him to trade mark the words Neo-Orientalism and NeOrientalist serving as the basis for Parnes’ narrative by incorporation of ancient, contemporaneous, and mystical characteristics.