BIOGRAPHY
Leo Park sources motifs and stylistic influence from art history and fuses them with pop cultural references to form a figurative style of painting that is undoubtedly contemporary yet relatable in its connection to artistic traditions. His visual world is inhabited by well-known myths and tropes in which themes such as desire, creation and death are explored. Park is guided by a yearning for the universal in art. A timelessness and boundlessness where the painting’s essence can be interpreted freely and by many.
Park ponders how future generations will interpret images created today as the instant image sharing that internet facilitates diminishes the importance of art historically important markers such as the time period and place of origin of an image or movement. By integrating time specific markers (an iPhone of a certain model) with well-known ideas and formulas relating to art history, Park is reaching across time to paint in the now.
