Tae Park

            Freesia, Cello-Blue Scarf
  36 x 48 - Oil             Leimoniad
  24 x 36 - Oil                Morning Break
  18 x 24 - Oil             Towards Home
  19 x 19 - Oil                Still life
  10 x 8 - Oil             Forest of Heart
  18 x 36 - Oil                 Mon Ami - SOLD
  24 x 12 - Oil                 Violinist
  18 x 26 - Oil             Sight - SOLD
  36 x 24 - Oil           Ecco
  10 x 10 - Oil               Flower - Shade
  8 x 11 - Oil on Linnen                Nocturn
  26 x 18 - Oil              Sori
  8 x10 - Oil        

Antique Bicycle 24" x 30", oil on canvas

         

Avec on the Bridge 30" x 19", oil on linen

         

Goodbye to Yesterday 16" x 20", oil on canvas

           

Side of the Seine River 19" x 14", oil on canvas

           

Street Musician 30" x 20", oil on canvas

         

Parisien #2 16" x 12", oil on canvas

              Tae Park

“Painting is a doorway into another world, a gateway to another reality. It is not only an illusion of three dimensional space, but a reflection of the world that exists within me.”

Education: Academy of Art University, Master of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA

Tae has received numerous awards including The Halpert Biennial second place award in Boone, NC, International Artist Magazine’s top ten finalists and many more.

“This inner world that I paint is partly based on reality, but it is an idealized reality. It is a place of calmness that exists in fleeting moments of time. With painting, I am able to capture these serene moments. The people, place and events that I paint are frozen in a moment of time and reality that may not have existed in the material world…”

 

 

"My family is comprised of six boys and two girls, of which I am the youngest. My father had a passion for drawing. Unfortunately, he was never encouraged to pursue his art. Ultimately, he took up a career as an elementary school teacher. In Korea, schoolteachers follow yearly contracts that can reassign the teachers to different schools in different regions. As a result, our family was always on the move. I grew up amongst a family of older brothers and sister of various age gaps. And I was constantly exposed to new environments. From the differing thoughts of older siblings to the continuous changes in living environment, my childhood had no constant factors. I quickly became accustomed to all the dynamics and variations of life.

 

 

 

This is a person who has found her voice as an artist. Tae Park paints a wide selection of subject matter from the classical figure to mythological nymphs, antiquated bicycles tying the viewer to childhood memories, cityscapes of metropolitan areas worldwide, European street scenes from her many painting trips to historical areas and the simple but elegant still life. Her technique of alternating from saturated pigment to diffused paint application gives each piece a soft focus feel. She has her own distinct style, whether the piece is a 6" x 8" painting of two plums or a 48" x 72" life-size painting of a reclining nude the viewer is aware that each is painted by the same artist. Now, as a painting instructor at her alma mater, she shares her passion for the figure and the portrait with gifted students under her tutelage.