Graham Parks paints abstracted, but graphically precise views of buildings, trees, and familiar places. Sometimes having vibrant or contrasting colors, other times muted and austerely monochromatic, these small, spare
paintings read quickly yet linger in the mind’s eye like a welcome
afterimage.

Parks first takes photographs of places he wishes to remember, such as a mountain lake outside Spokane, Washington, where he was raised, or
buildings in a city that he has visited. He crops and edits a picture to its most essential elements while creating a flat, frontal opticality to his highly formal paintings. Parks’s reductive paintings record places that have a
personal connection and explore the alliance of nature and architecture within the contemporary landscape.