Christy Park
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I studied painting at the Art Students’ League in New York City, and earned an MFA in film/printmaking at the Ohio State University. I worked mostly with film and was drawn to the montage of frames and sound which for me were a natural extension of my primary medium, collage. My work has been exhibited nationally, and I was one of the founders of the 55 Mercer St. Gallery in NY. I am now professor emerita at the Massachusetts College of Art, and I have written on video art.
Experiences have always been subliminal guidelines for my work (as I believe they are for many artists) I am inspired mostly by the stories which reflect a lifetime of reading, and the stories that I recreate in visual form are often shaped by places that I have visited, remember, or have read about. Social issues are currently at the forefront of my work - war in particular.
I am interested the role that conflict has played in human history, and I am inspired by this quote from Isaiah:
“They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. [Isaiah 2:4]”
My recent work follows two strands: images that evoke war, and weapons transformed into plowshares that are overlaid with their original purposes.
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