Spring has hundreds of flowers

Parks' small-scale paintings depict silhouette-like fragments of natural and urban landscapes. Treetops and Modernist facades are transformed into reductive, poetic simplifications. Executed in a streamlined, graphically precise style, his essentialist paintings record places with which the artist has a personal connection, and explore the alliance between nature and architecture. Parks first takes photographs of places he wishes to remember, such as a mountain lake near where he was raised, or buildings in a city that he has visited. He then crops and edits a picture to its most fundamental elements while creating a flat, frontal optical quality to his highly formal paintings. He meticulously tapes off polarized sections from one another, crisply separating textured and matte from smooth and glossy surfaces in alternately vibrant colors or muted monochromatic palettes.
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