The Parrish Art Museum has added two new exhibitions, both devoted to artists with deep ties to the East End.
"Charlotte Park: The Life of Forms in Color," organized by Klaus Ottmann, the museum's Robert Lehman Curator, with support from Ms. Halloran, features more than 70 paintings and works on paper, drawn exclusively from a 2017 gift to the Parrish by the James and Charlotte Brooks Foundation.
Color and form, often related to the living environment that surrounded the studio Park shared with Brooks, her husband, were constant forces in her work. The exhibition follows her abstractions of color and form inspired by organic life, from her tentative use of color in the early to mid-1950s to her assertive compositions of the 1980s.
Park was a pivotal figure in Abstract Expressionism, though her significant contributions gained wider recognition only later in her career. Known for her vibrant and dynamic canvases, she received renewed attention following a 2010 exhibition.
Roberta Smith of The New York Times praised Park as "a natural painter and a gifted colorist," noting her work's parity with that of her more celebrated peers, both male and female, represented in major art institutions. Her work can be found in prestigious collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, and the Telfair Museums.
