For his exhibition titled Amagansett, Seattle based artist Joseph Park has created paintings inspired by his recent sojourn in Amagansett, New York. Mining this area of rich artistic activity, Park uses lush, swirling brushwork to create powerfully stark depictions of the tree outside Jackson Pollock’s studio, for example, or a rocking chair that belonged to Willem de Kooning. The region’s famed light and physical features—including the Walking Dunes—are strikingly captured in Park’s restrained palette of cobalt based ocean blues and sepia browns, conjuring winter colors and seasonal nostalgia. His dynamic style seems equally inspired by Pollock’s powerfully kinetic technique as by the motion of the wind and waves.

Joseph Park’s exhibition, Amagansett is on view at the Rena Bransten Gallery in San Francisco Sept. 7th – Oct. 14th, 2006.

He is also represented by Howard House Gallery in Seattle.

The Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1977 to promote an appreciation and understanding of 20th century art. Today it continues this objective by focussing on contemporary art practice.