José Parlá doesn’t paint, he dances. “My type of meditation is listening to music. I move to it, and eventually it translates into the movement that happens in the painting”. In the studio, he leaps, jumps and climbs across the canvas with his brush. The results are magnificently abstract and burst with kinetic energy. Parlá's passion for music and dance harks back to his childhood. When he was growing up in 1980s-Miami, music was a unifying force. Hip-hop, in particular, brought communities together to dance and hang out – and Parlá aims to do the same with his art.
Together, all of Parlá’s pa...
Bio
Cuban-American artist José Parlá was born 1973 in Miami, Florida and now practices in Brooklyn, New York.
Career
The artist was awarded a scholarship from Savannah College of Art & Design at just 16 years old when a teacher discovered the already-exceptional calibre of his work.
Did you know?
Many cite It’s Yours, Parlá’s 2020 solo exhibition at The Bronx Museum of The Arts, as New York's last great pre-pandemic opening.