Venice Beach, CA

Surfers

Fifth of July, West Hampton

New painting just started

elephant tree antlers

How I learned to stop worrying and love the sample

Caught a weekend with the bomb.

Keys, JWA – Brooklyn Heights

Endless permutations.

Mantle, early spring.

new painting

propped up against an old screen on the desk

Weekend in the country

the Birdhouse

Frozen Sink, Animal Tracks

Fannie Hungerford and Eddie Bennett

New York Real Estate

A favorite from the age of 7

Industrial Object

the museum has a sense of humor

Something in the Moma

But what?

Stuff I saw yesterday

Although I feel like it's been around for at least a year. On Elston, south of Division.

A small gift in a homemade envelope with string

Stuff lying around the house.

Anna Joyce

Victor Maldonado

Lulu

I made this but I don't know what it is

Something about planes, I guess.

Blackberry

The birds have gotten such a response that I decided to go ahead and make variations (per the suggestion). This piece is currently in progress and will probably end up mostly dark dark gray.

UPDATE DEC-16: Finished. View here at elainepark.com/recent.

Holiday Lights

I cleaned my office

And I use the term "office," loosely, as this is clearly a small cardboard box.

Mine

This is the exhibition catalog for the ©Murakami exhibit at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Los Angeles. Here is a link to their site about the show. The Exhibition Tour videos are a wonderful series of scenes where Murakami stands next to several of his paintings and talks about how terrible he thinks they are.

Of all his characters, my favorite is his alter-ego, DOB – a friendly looking cartoon head that evolves over the course of several years into the little monster on the cover of the catalog. In the exhibit notes, Mika Yoshitake writes that "Murakami has referred to DOB as an erratic manifestation of the desire to consume and the ceaseless regeneration of that impulse."

After the show, I bought this book and some buttons.

Work In Progress

A final coat of gesso today.

Magical Ingredients

With special thanks to Scott, Kumar and the American Science and Surplus store.

What's Cooking

Also, just relaunched my main website. Please visit elainepark.com.

Preparing Surfaces

New work is now on display at 4Art in the Chicago Arts District (1932 S Halsted St # 100).

Opening receptions every second Friday from 6–9pm. Please join!