José Parlá: Phosphene

The works on view in José Parlá’s “Phosphene” originate from the artist’s time spent in his hometown of Miami, where his sunlit natural surroundings offered a change in scenery from his usual setting of an industrial Brooklyn studio. Noting the hallucinatory images that come from closing one’s eyes while in direct contact with the sun’s rays, Parlá’s latest works are born from this experience. Featured in the show, Ben Brown Fine Arts is presenting ten compositions of a more intimate scale that are the product of this plein-air painting experience, along with two large-scale canvases, which bear witness to the artist’s process and gestures with their layers of looping, swirling white markings.