{"id":2372226,"global_id":"www.visartscenter.org?id=2372226","global_id_lineage":["www.visartscenter.org?id=2372226"],"author":"2002091","status":"publish","date":"2019-06-28 16:04:55","date_utc":"2019-06-28 20:04:55","modified":"2020-11-20 11:51:22","modified_utc":"2020-11-20 16:51:22","url":"https:\/\/www.visartscenter.org\/event\/nara-park-presence\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/www.visartscenter.org\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/2372226","title":"Nara Park: Presence","description":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first\" style=\"width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 4%;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><script>document.getElementsByClassName(\"entry-title\")[0].style.display = \"none\";<\/script>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: x-large;\">Related<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Opening Reception and Artist Talk: Friday, January 24, 7 \u2013 9 PM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Inside Art:<\/strong> <strong>Texture Workshop, February 23, 1 PM<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visartscenter.org\/event\/texture-workshop-3\/\">RSVP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Create a collage with tactile texture with the artist. $15<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-last\" style=\"width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 4% ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:20px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><div class=\"fusion-events-featured-image\">\n<div><strong><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: x-large;\">Nara Park<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"hover-type-none\"><strong>January 15 \u2013 March 1, 2020<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"fusion-events-featured-image\">\n<div class=\"hover-type-none\"><strong>Gibbs Street Gallery<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tribe-events-single-event-description tribe-events-content entry-content description\">\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Nara Park\u2019s newest body of work <em>Presence<\/em>, features free-standing sculptures composed of tiny painted Styrofoam beads imitating grains of sand. The microbeads form masses, evoking markers or monuments. Park explores how monuments and sculpture mark space, time, and place. She considers how their \u201cpresence\u201d serves to replace, or remind us of the physical presence of a person or an event.<\/p>\n<p>Park dyed the beads with acrylic paint and glued them together with archival adhesive. The accumulation of beads in multiple colors creates the illusion of disintegrating surfaces or the build-up of lichen, mold, or coral.\u00a0 Upon close examination of the works, the grains are visible and appear to coalesce in organic growth patterns. Most of the sculptures are hollow, emphasizing that there is a void under the surface of a monumental structure.<\/p>\n<p>Hollowness coexists with bulk, physical lightness with visual weight, emptiness yet immanence. They are only surfaces, but they suggest solids. In contrast to the monument as symbol of strength, stability and permanence, Park\u2019s monuments reference the fragility of life and the passage of time. From tiny particles and illusion emerges a larger whole, glowing with individuality and undeniable presence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My work investigates our relationship to the landscape we live in and the imprint we leave in it when we are gone.\u201d- Nara Park<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>About the Artist:<\/em><\/strong> Nara Park is a sculptor and installation artist based in Washington, D.C. She holds a B.F.A. in\u00a0General Fine Arts followed by an M.F.A. in Sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art,\u00a0where she received the Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award\u00a0by the International Sculpture Center and Henry Walters Traveling Fellowship. She is a recipient\u00a0of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities Fellowship, the Young Artist Award from the\u00a0Trawick foundation and the Hamiltonian Artists Fellowship. Park\u2019s work has been on exhibit at numerous venues including Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, The Phillips Collection, Grounds for Sculpture, Baltimore\/Washington International Airport and American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center. Her work has been featured in the Sculpture magazine, The Washington Post and Artnet News. Her public\u00a0collections include The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p><u>www.<\/u><a href=\"https:\/\/naraparkstudio.com\/\">naraparkstudio.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>About the VisArts Studio Fellowship:<\/em><\/strong> The VisArts Studio Fellowship\u00a0provides a unique opportunity for a dynamic individual artist or collaborative artist team to create a new body of work, evolve an existing body of work, or develop a project in a stimulating, supportive environment over a\u00a0six month\u00a0period. Studio space is provided free of charge. Artists receive a $500.00 per month stipend.\u00a0The Studio Fellowship\u00a0offers the gift of time and space to two artists and\/or collaborative artist teams each year to experiment and realize new work. The VisArts Studio Fellows present their work in solo exhibitions at the end of their respective\u00a0fellowships.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div 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