Chaotic, pessimistic, expression of today's human life. When I first met Anna Park, I had a hard time understanding her works, but she literally drew me in. I continued to study her work and now she is now among the artists I idolize. Moreover, she is only 28 years old!
*Anna Park
“In the beginning you have to say yes to everything,” she said, “but artists talk about the power of saying no.”
In May 2019, KAWS, one of the famous names of contemporary art, came across a missile work called “Life” at the open studio exhibition of the New York Academy of Arts. The owner of this work, which he shared on his Instagram page, suddenly encounters an unexpected media attention. In Park's own words, her work depicts crowds of people floating in "vague chaos." She likens the wild crowds she draws to daily life, in which most people are helplessly drawn into the activity.
*Dreaming, 2017
Born in South Korea in 1994, Park settled with his family in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States. She got an early mentorship from Bruce Robertson in elementary school, who saw one of his drawings at an art fair in a mall. He changed her life in the past by teaching him both perseverance and drawing, as Park later expressed.
She eventually settled in Pratt to study illustration and animation, but when she saw that he was oriented towards the fine arts and sought a traditional art school education, she attended the New York Academy of the Arts. There she studied with one of his drawing idols, Michael Grimaldi, and turned to the "quickness, forgivingness" of coal. Cecily Brown's art, on the other hand, was important to her in achieving her current, wild, semi-abstract style - she would often listen to interviews with artists in the context of self-development while working.
*We are But the Pawns in this Pantomime, 2018
Now, a year after graduate school, she works in a spacious studio in Bushwick, usually completing work in two or three weeks. "I tend to work wildly," she said, working intuitively from the images and memories found, "then I correct myself."
Although she did not give up on charcoal, it is impossible to miss the sharp changes he has shown in her works since 2017. On his website, you can see the work he has done since 2017.
Of course, I'm adding it for convenience :) https://www.annaparkart.com/
*Handle With Care, 2019
Experimenting with the female figure in her early days, Park begins to give the first examples of her signature apocalyptic crowds in 2018. In other words, monumental charcoal drawings that capture a world in motion. In their distinctive crazy swirls and sharp angles, friends stumble on dance floors, entertainers perform for faceless crowds, and strangers fight in bars. The frenetic energy of New York can clearly be seen to greatly influence the current style of the Daegu-born, Salt Lake City-raised artist. She also draws inspiration from the media she consumes online and at any given time, whether it's a tennis match or reality love contests.
I can't help but add her Instagram account that has over 70,000 followers :)
https://www.instagram.com/annaparkart/
In time, she found himself and realized it. She describes her facial expressions, which sometimes soften and sometimes become monstrous, detaching from the human form as “a reflection of the moments when my identity was at risk of being lost during the transitions I went through in my life”. In the work she has done in the last two years, people are almost drowned in their own turmoil, and sometimes the movement in the work becomes so violent that the suffering barbarian faces turn into a black and white whirlwind. The reason why Park is getting closer to abstract expressionism may be the individual-society conflict she is in and unfortunately cannot avoid.
*Thnak Me Later, 2020
While the American motifs in her work come from his experiences in Utah, "the chaotic, suffocating side comes from New York." She doesn't mean it as an insult. She enjoys overstimulation, even if New York overwhelms her. At 25, Park realizes that early success can limit her ability to move in new directions. “I'm so grateful to be able to do this every day, but it's definitely scarier to take risks with more eyes on you,” she says.
“My dream has always been to be bigger because I love the idea of being consumed by drawings. They're so busy and chaotic that I'm almost pushed into this world I've created.” Now that she has achieved this and more, Park wants to explore new terrains that are ever-growing, never indifferent.
*Hero Mentality, 2021
Being inspired by Anna Park, who achieved such success at such an early age, I wish her success...
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