From: Rey Parla (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Jun 24 2004 - 07:48:50 PDT
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Prophecy Gallery is pleased to present its inaugural exhibition...
HYPHENS: MIAMI-NEWYORK-HABANA
A show comprised of new paintings by Jose Parla.
The title suggests the flows and conjunctions of modern global migration and in fact reflects the peregrinations of the artist himself. Born in Miami into a family of Cuban exiles, Jose Parla moved to Puerto Rico at a very early age before returning to Miami again when he was nine. He currently lives and works in New York, and only recently traveled to Cuba for the first time. His life, like his work, is therefore at once extremely particular and generally reflective of the wanderings of today's urban populations. In the context of these migrations and upheavals, Jose Parla is concerned with the way that cities function as palimpsests, upon which the experiences of those who pass through them are materially inscribed in decay, in graffiti, in the well-worn paths of their inhabitants. Jose Parlašs work attempts to extract and synthesize fragments of these urban environments in flux and reproduce them using the materials and methods of architectural construction cement, wood, and vinyl as well as those of
traditional art like paper, paint, powdered dye, wax, and ink. Yet because these fragments are inflected by the memories and experience of the artist, he considers them to be paintings in sense that is probably truer than one that refers merely to the physical presence of pigments and oil. Parla describes the objects of his method as segmented realities or memory documents. Each bears the name of the location or experience from which it draws its source.
Jose Parla lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He was awarded the Francis McCommon Scholarship to the Savannah College of Art & Design, Georgia in 1989. He has exhibited his work in various group and solo shows in New York, Paris and Tokyo and his work is featured in the collections of Agnes B., Tom Ford, Richard Buckley, Katy Barker, and Tanushi Tomoki.
Prophecy magazine is pleased to announce the opening of Prophecy Gallery in Harlem. The location of the gallery in Harlem, outside of the traditional gallery ghettos of SoHo and Chelsea, should be taken to signify Prophecy's continuing commitment to bringing forward-thinking art and culture into dialogue with contemporary metropolitan living.
Prophecy Gallery: 2174 Third Avenue / 118th street, Harlem, NYC.
Opening reception for the artist on Saturday, June 26th, 5pm-9pm.
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