Enthusiasms: Personal Paintings by Jessica Park

Jessica Park (b. 1958) sees the world through high definition rainbow-colored glasses. Park’s images depict everyday objects and images with precise attention paid to the most mundane of details, along with scientifically accurate depictions of rare and unusual astronomical phenomenon, seamlessly brought together into fantastical combinations. This is all done in a brilliant, carefully calculated color palette and intricate patterning that seems to almost vibrate with energy.

Enthusiasms: Personal Paintings by Jessica Park features a lesser-known aspect of Park’s work, focusing on the first decade of her career and more recent creations from the last decade that were created at the artist’s own initiative as gifts for family and friends, or to keep for herself. These works reflect Park’s deeply personal interests, or “enthusiasms” as she calls them, in popular culture, astronomical phenomenon, and prismatic lights and color, natural or man-made, often configured in tightly controlled grid-like structures.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.