Grounded in Parlá’s personal first-generation Cuban American immigrant family story and an ever-evolving practice that concerns exiled communities and their contribution to America, 'Roots' offers a new visual relationship with its pictorially contemplative environment in order to consider connections between local history and the past, present, and future. Parlá produces a gestural landscape with juxtaposed characters, hieroglyphs, and words within paintings and sculptures that are deliberately created to serve as carriers of meaning. The titles of his works often create playful connotations as signifiers to specific places or times, thus becoming clues to decoding the work. Parlá’s grandfather was an aviation pioneer who flew between Key West and Mariel, Cuba, on a biplane made of sugarcane and bamboo, which he named Caña Brava. The Cuban aviator’s legacy continues to serve as an inspiration to the artist and his family. José Parlá spent his formative years immersed in the thriving underground art scenes of Miami, while frequently traveling to other cities, including Beijing, Havana, Istanbul, New York, Paris, Sydney, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo, London, and San Juan, as well as to many other countries in which the multicultural environment and social processes deeply impacted his perception of urban space. In his practice, like his grandfather’s flight between the United States and Cuba in 1912, José Parlá highlights the cultural bonds between communities and the expression thereof.

José Parlá (born 1973) has received critical acclaim for his works, which lie at the boundary between abstraction and calligraphy. Composed from layers of paint, gestural drawing and found ephemera, his work evokes the histories of urban environments. Parlá is a documentarian of city life. In Medias Res, Parlá’s second solo exhibition with Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery in New York City opened in Chelsea in 2014. In 2012, the 11th Havana Biennial selected The Wrinkles of the City: Havana, Cuba project, a vertically integrated collaboration between Parlá and French artist JR, and exhibited in 2013 at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery. Parlá and JR co-directed a documentary by the same title that was awarded the Grand Prize for Documentary Short and Best U.S. Premiere Documentary Short in 2013 at The Heartland Film Festival, Indianapolis. In 2014, Parlá was commissioned to create a 90-foot- long mural painting for the entrance of One World Trade Center, which he has entitled: ONE: Union of the Senses.

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