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MeeNa Park, In Funny Flying!, 2015, watercolor on coloring page, 28.5 × 77.5 cm

Since 1998, MeeNa Park has been creating her own “drawings” - coloring books used for learning and play. In Funny Flying! is part of the artist’s decades-long project, condensing her experiments with drawing methodologies and systems of thought. The artist asks how to organize drawings and elicits multiple responses.

 

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MeeNa Park, Composition II (Corner Shop), 1998, oil, acrylic, clear acetate, self-adhesive vinyl on canvas, 244 × 163 cm
MeeNa Park, Composition II (Corner Shop), 1998, pen, colored pencil, c-print, acetate lettering on vellum paper, 28 × 21.5 cm ( × 11pcs )
MeeNa Park, Composition I (Fire Extinguisher), 1998, oil, acrylic, c-print, and self-adhesive vinyl on canvas, 171 × 69 cm
MeeNa Park, Composition I (Fire Extinguisher), 1998, pen, colored pencil, c-print, acetate lettering, and color swatch on vellum paper, 28 × 21.5 cm ( × 7pcs )
MeeNa Park, Providenc (Painting), 1996, oil on canvas, 152.5 × 91.5 cm
MeeNa Park, Providence (Collage), 1996, c-print on paper, 28 × 21 cm
MeeNa Park, Color Notes, 1997, self-adhesive vinyle on acrylic box, and embroide on fabric, 36.5 × 28.5 cm
MeeNa Park, Orange List, 2002, acrylic on canvas, 16 × 23 cm
MeeNa Park, Ssamzie Space studio 502, 2002, c-print, 16 × 23 cm
MeeNa Park, Fluorescence House, 1999, acrylic on canvas, 152.5 × 122 cm

A series of paintings by MeeNa Park is an early work from the artist’s research and practice in the late 1990s. Mina Park’s long-standing exploration of color collection, abstraction, and the formality of pictorial language reveals the artist’s ethodology and algorithm for recording, constructing, and recreating space. Through a series of works called Composition, Park intersects images with real-life objects of corner stores and fire extinguishers, structuring the way painting as a manifestation of reality relates to the outside world. ‘Ssamzie Space studio 502’, ‘Providence’, and ‘Corner Shop’ are framed paintings and collages that are part and parcel of the spaces the artist has actually lived in and seen.