José Parlá: Homecoming
Opening November 14, 2024
October 26–27, 11am–1pm and 2–4pm | José Parlá Open Studio
October 26, 10am–12pm | Museum Circle Artful Sips: José Parlá Open Studio
November 13, 6–8pm | Museum Circle Preview of José Parlá: Homecoming
November 14, 7pm | Scholl Lecture Series: José Parlá in Conversation with Craig Dykers
November 14, 8pm | Performance and Homecoming Celebration with Clave y Cuba and Arthur Baker
Born in Miami to Cuban parents, artist José Parlá (b. 1973, Miami; lives in New York) was raised between mainland United States and Puerto Rico. Influenced by his proximity to Caribbean and Latin American countries, he developed an interest in diverse cultural traits, including Cuban music, hip hop, reggae, calligraphy, dance, and urban architecture and its decay, all of which would become recurring themes in his work. Consistent with his blended culture, Parlá is interested in hybrid forms of abstraction. Through a unique mark-making process, grounded in movement and bodily gestures, Parlá produces a painterly stream of consciousness characterized by addition, erasure, and layering. His physical and textural artistic process challenges conventional visual culture.
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is honored to be hosting Parlá’s first solo museum exhibition in his hometown. Featuring a new series of never-before-seen works and a site-specific mural, José Parlá: Homecoming will ultimately mirror the artist’s studio. An elaborate, two-part exhibition will allow visitors to observe Parlá’s dance-like technique in real time as he paints a site-specific mural for the first iteration of the exhibition. The second iteration will see the museum gallery transformed and converted into Parlá’s studio—a room full of paint-covered tables, a lively Cuban-inspired record collection, and decades of Parla’s archival memorabilia.
Celebrating the spirit of resilience and returning to one’s roots, Homecoming is a testament to the profound connection between personal history, art, and creative expression.
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