Tag: jose parla

Loving Jose Parla.  The enigmatic Brooklyn painter has been called a “raconteur,” a conceptual documentarian, a “transcriber.”  Parla’s work, which I wish we had on our walls and hopefully, one day, will, uses markings and layers of distress to chronicle the passing of time and neglect across their surfaces.  The work is beautiful, cerebral, emotional.  Like, say, Cy Twombly, it feels…