JOSE PARLA
2010-12-27Brooklyn artist José Parlá incorporates calligraphy into pictures that resemble distressed city walls. Art historian Michael Betancourt divided his paintings into three categories: walls, diaries, and pictures. Walls are mural sized, diaries are smaller than walls, heavily filled with writing, and resemble a palimpsest. Pictures are the size of traditional paintings, but their visual contents resembles the walls but without the scale.
His book Wall, Diaries, and Paintings is available now.
Exhibition runs from March 4th to April 9th, 2011
Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
505 W 24th St
NY, 10011
USA
