Joe Park is a known artist in Northwest America and is beginning to achieve attention outside (was just nominated for the Rome Prize). His paintings have crossover with anime and an endearing, accessible quality touching on themes of friendship, love, and nostalgia.
Joe Park is a known artist in Northwest America and is beginning to achieve attention outside (was just nominated for the Rome Prize). His paintings have crossover with anime and an endearing, accessible quality touching on themes of friendship, love, and nostalgia.
Seattle-based artist Joseph Park creates haunting scenes that recall cartoons and childhood fantasies gone awry. Equally charming and disturbing, Park s universe is populated with thoughtful elephants, chess-playing bunnies, and lost princesses. Whether sent to loved ones or kept as a miniature monograph of this rising star, these postcards will transport you to a beautifully strange otherworld.
“"The unifying element here is Park's great talent with all these subjects (reproduced from oil on linen paintings). The sharp balance between light and dark (literally and figuratively) will pull you into his strange and whimsical world until you just have to see more." - Joy Hog -- -”
"The unifying element here is Park's great talent with all these subjects (reproduced from oil on linen paintings). The sharp balance between light and dark (literally and figuratively) will pull you into his strange and whimsical world until you just have to see more." - Joy Hog
Joseph Park holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. He has had solo exhibitions throughout Northwest America, most recently at the Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco, California and at the Portland Art Museum in Portland. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, and his work is held in the collections of numerous museums and private collections.
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