SFMOMA’s “7×7” Virtual David Park Talk w/ 49+ Minutes of Art, Insights & Memories

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Watch seven speakers take the (virtual) floor for seven minutes each to reflect on selected works by David Park. This special program will be moderated by SFMOMA’s chief curator Janet Bishop and features artist Wayne Thiebaud and Helen Park Bigelow, Park’s daughter.

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Join us for 49+ minutes of art, insights, and mem­ories at David Park: 7×7. In this online program, our seven distinguished guests will have the (virtual) floor for seven minutes each to reflect on a work by the late David Park (1911–1960), best known as the originator of Bay Area Figurative Art.

Speakers

• Helen Park Bigelow, daughter of David Park; author of the memoir David Park, Painter: Nothing Held Back
• Nancy Boas, author of the biography David Park: A Painter’s Life
• Gretchen Diebenkorn Grant, daughter of artist Richard Diebenkorn
• Corey Keller, curator of photography, SFMOMA; exhibition catalogue contributor
• Francis Mill, artist; gallerist at Hackett Mill, representing the estate of David Park
• Belinda Tate, executive director, Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts
• Wayne Thiebaud, artist
• Janet Bishop (moderator), Thomas Weisel Family Chief Curator and Curator of Painting and Sculpture, SFMOMA; lead curator of David Park: A Retrospective

Organized by SFMOMA, David Park: A Retrospective is the first major museum exhibition of Park’s work in three decades. Further, it is the first to examine the full arc of the artist’s career — from his Social Realist efforts of the 1930s to his final works on paper in 1960 — with an emphasis on his lush, powerfully expressive canvases of the human experience from the 1950s.

In keeping with city and county safety measures, SFMOMA is currently closed. Learn more here.

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