AMY PARK

Important elements of Amy Parks artistic practice include watercolor, architecture, good paper, straight lines, looking at abstract paintings, color theory, composition, buildings I see every day and ones I have never seen, yoga, walking through new cities, my camera, museums. With architecture and abstraction as her subject matter, Park creates paintings in watercolor. This choice is out of my love for the medium, she says. I like how unpredictable it can be if I let it, but I also love how I am able to paint a straight line. Every painting requires a meditative state, whereby I just paint the lines, building a building on the paper.

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1 Aaltos Hidden Entrance, 20072008
Watercolor
48 × 48 in. (122 × 122 cm)

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2 Mirrored Wall, 2008
Watercolor
45 × 36 in. (114 × 91 cm)

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3 Three Chicago Buildings, 2011
Watercolor
30 × 22 in. (76 × 56 cm)

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4 Goldberg in Chicago, 2010
Watercolor
30 × 22 in. (76 × 56 cm)

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5 Blue-Violet Post Office, 2010
Watercolor
30 × 22 in. (76 × 56 cm)

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6 Niemeyer Façade, 2010
Watercolor
30 × 22 in. (76 × 56 cm)

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7 Argos Building for Experimental Concrete, 2010
Watercolor
60 × 48 in. (152 × 122 cm)

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8 Balance, 2011
Watercolor
30 × 22 in. (76 × 56 cm)