07/18/2020
This , we are revisiting MeeNa Park's solo exhibition "Gray Sky" in 2012 at DOOSAN Gallery New York. The exhibition features a painting and numerous drawings among her latest works.
Park sees the world as a simple color palettes and elements of anagram and dingbat. Anagram is a type of literary technique, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new phrase. Dingbat is a character used in computer industry, which is designated for symbolism. In Park’s works, the anagram and dingbat appear as if they are meaningful symbol or terminology, however, relevance between the image and title is blurred. The title is created by insignificant letters, and it is converted to dingbats on the painting. By using anagram, title has imbued its significance and dingbats itself creates an image.
This exhibition was accompanied by more than seventy-pencil-drawings of sun using different types of graphite on children’s coloring pages. In her drawings, the color has a characteristic of its own ‘colored’ object, rather than ‘color’ as visual perception. Park had worked with other color scheme, however, this was her first time of using gray from her color-palettes. Throughout this over all process, Park describes complexity of the contemporary art, furthermore, prevails a limitation of the existing communication system and linguistic barriers.
Art work:
"111122223333444556677888999000AABBFGgJoVvWwx" 2012. Acrylic on canvas. 78.7 x 177.1 inches.
"1~44" series, 2011. Acrylic on coloring page. 12.9 x 10 inches.
"The Sun" 2011. Pencil on coloring page. 12.9 x 10 inches.
#박미나작가 @ DOOSAN Gallery New York