DANA PARK

Lives and works in Seoul.

1961 Born in Korea
1984 Graduated from School of Fine Arts, Hongik University (KR)

Park thus insists upon a conversation between herself and the past, whereby her experience in nature is given passionate expression. The key to her success lies in her independent treatment of form, which she adhere to despite the long history of painting that supports and sustains her art. This attitude is clear from the start in Park’s painting.

In one purple landscape, mists and clouds compete with high stone peaks; it is almost as if we are at the end of the world. The effect of her craft is nearly supernatural, vague cloud forms merge with sharp angles of rock. Park claims that this is done out of the imagination, in a way that emphasizes personal idiosyncrasy above all else. A slight feeling of eccentricity seems to me inevitable in the creation of the Asian landscape, which offers so many different ways of representation.

Now her style is getting settled down in rough and flat structure as a combination of abstract picture and expression. And she regards landscape as a pulled down form and adapts her own form bare handmade beyond representation of nature. Uncommonly through her hand, the basic tool, she reveals inner world of the artist utterly. This formula means that she denies the indirect touch of medium, At the same time, this is not quite different from body language of action painters that he developed the effect of flexibility into new an aesthetic sense. We must not overlook that she is a sculptor, too. perhaps she sculptures colors on plane.

Jonathan Goodman

 

SELECTED WORKS

2022

Acrylic on Canvas
116.7 x 93.1 cm

2020

Acrylic on Canvas
130.3 x 80.3 cm

2020

Acrylic on Canvas
130.3 x 80.3 cm

2010

Acrylic on Canvas
116 x 81 cm

2012

Acrylic on Canvas
112 x 162 cm

2015

Acrylic on Canvas
72.7 x 60.6 cm

2008

Acrylic on Canvas
200 x 120 cm

2019

Acrylic on Canvas
130.3 x 194 cm

2020

Acrylic on Canvas
162 x 130.3 cm

2020

Acrylic on Canvas
130.3 x 80.3 cm

2012

Acrylic on Canvas
116 x 72.7 cm

2012

Acrylic on Canvas
72.7 x 116 cm

2006

Acrylic on Canvas
91 x 116.7 cm

2008

Acrylic on Canvas
162 x 112 cm

2014

Acrylic on Canvas
112 x 162 cm

2021

Acrylic on Canvas
130.3 x 80.3 cm

2020

Acrylic on Canvas
130.3 x 80.3 cm

2020

Acrylic on Canvas
130.3 x 162 cm

2010

Acrylic on Canvas
116 x 81 cm

2008

Acrylic on Canvas
100 x 40 cm

2013

Acrylic on Canvas
116 x 91 cm

2008

Acrylic on Canvas
200 x 120 cm

2017

Acrylic on Canvas
80.3 x 116.7 cm