i'll let his friends remember him here. i always liked fairfield porter's paintings & park reminds me of him quite a bit. he follows a line of painters from marsden hartley that painted what their eyes were drawn to & what their imaginative talents re-created. that this tended to be landscapes doesn't make them any less interesting or beautiful. most of the abstract expressionists began in landscapes.
while i have lots of problems w/the notion of the "supremacy of vision," i do believe park's paintings ARE about vision. i think it's more about how the mind reflects on what it sees(which is how things work anyway)or the combinatory nature of the process of seeing & how that's translated into an idea of "vision."
"In their lush momentum these paintings reminded me of the first wave of American moderns: Marsden Hartley, Arthur Dove, John Marin. Autumn Summersweet, the tawny maroon hit of the show, exudes a wired, almost Jimi Hendrix sentimentality. Each of these paintings is a fresh map of nature; every quick impression, every wriggle of light and hue is inscribed in a heavy-handed way that lures you into the orchestraction of the moment and Park's inhabited ideas about painting. Several of these works depict scenes from baseball games, which are oddly suited to the cadence of this show. in Cold Beer a figure moves through the crowded bleachers, and a lasso of gold surrounds his head like an aura. These are way past 'views.'" eileen myles
"Darragh, who died Friday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, said he had "a vision of vision." As a motorcyclist he learned on entering a curve that he had to focus "beyond my immediate destination if I was to operate the machine smoothly and stay alive." He had to be able to divide his sight between two points and let "the rest of [his] vision" take in everything between them. The beauty of his paintings is a beauty achieved by the supremacy of vision. How cruel that of all ailments, he had to suffer the progressive deterioration of his eyesight." david lehman
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