Description: Confronting Zinsmeister Parkers paintings is exactly that - a confrontation, but one with a twist. Her work seems to conspire to implicate the viewer on both visceral and intellectual levels. The strategies that Parker employs to force this kind of engagement have been central to painting since as long as anyone began working out the hows and why of this craft and art. These strategies concern scale, composition, color and surface. Western art tradition has accustomed us to accept the unframed painting as an analogue to real experience. Put simply, in this system scale represents a discrete given, a visual extent. The miniature, for example, allows the encompassment of the painted illusion by the viewer. On the other hand