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Sep 7, 2020 · Organized by SFMOMA, this exhibition is the first major museum exhibition of Park’s work in three decades and the first to examine the full arc of his career, from his tightly controlled paintings from the 1930s to his final works on paper from 1960.
Oct 9, 2020 · “David Park: A Retrospective” features a long scroll from 1960 that Park made with a felt-tip pen and — like a sacred tablet from a religious school — narrates scenes that meant much to the chronicler.
At the age of thirty-eight, David Park (1911–1960) abandoned a carload of his abstract expressionist canvases at the city dump and started painting “pictures” — a radical decision that led to the development of Bay Area Figurative Art.
Featuring more than one hundred works of art, David Park: A Retrospective traces the full arc of the artist’s career, from his early Social Realist efforts of the 1930s to his figurative paintings of the 1950s and final works on paper.
David Park was the first painter of note in the Bay Area to start painting figuratively in the 1950s, thus launching what became known as the Bay Area Figurative art movement.
Shocking the San Francisco art world in 1949, David Park made a dramatic stylistic break. No longer happy to paint compositions of color and abstract form, Park refocused his eye on the human figure in its everyday setting.
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David Park is responsible for helping develop one of the most vital and inventive shifts in American postwar art. His reassertion, in the 1950s, of the primacy of the figure within abstraction initiated a return to figuration that continues to impact American painting today.
