Jose Parla aka EASE portrait - graf graffiti artist Limited 1 of 5 and signed. From artist Syd exhibition. Start Price AUD 490.00 Current Price AUD 490.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price AUD 750.00 Reserve Price - Start Time Tuesday, September 02, 2008 End Time Sunday, September 07, 2008 Location Melbourne, VIC See more about 'Jose Parla aka EASE portrait - graf graffiti artist' Description For sale is a signed, framed, limited edition, photo portrait of Graffiti artist Ease, aka Jose Parla. The item is marked edition 01/05. That is, it is 1 of 5 in existence. The photo clearly shows Jose Parla painting in Tokyo in 2002. The item was brought at auction in 2005 in Sydney, Australia. Measurements are: 9 inches x 11 inches (23 cm x 28 cm). Given it is a limited edition, signed, portrait brought at one of his exhibitions, it is therefore very rare, and extremely valuable. About. Born in Miami into a family of Cuban exiles, José Parla moved to Puerto Rico at a very early age before returning to Miami again when he was nine. He currently lives and works in New York, and only recently traveled to Cuba for the first time. His life, like his work, is therefore at once extremely particular and generally reflective of the wanderings of today's urban populations. In the context of these migrations and upheavals, José Parla is concerned with the way that cities function as palimpsests, upon which the experiences of those who pass through them are materially inscribed in decay, in graffiti, in the well-worn paths of their inhabitants. José Parla's work attempts to extract and synthesize fragments of these urban environments in flux and reproduce them using the materials and methods of architectural construction: cement, wood, vinyl as well as those of traditional art like paper, paint, powdered dye, wax, and ink. Yet because these fragments are inflected by the memories and experience of the artist, he considers them to be paintings in sense that is probably truer than one that refers merely to the physical presence of pigments and oil. Parla describes the objects of his method as segmented realities or memory documents. Each bears the name of the location or experience from which it draws its source. José Parla lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He was awarded the Francis McCommon Scholarship to the Savannah College of Art & Design, Georgia in 1989. He has exhibited his work in various group and solo shows in Miami, Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles, Paris and Tokyo. His work is featured in the collections of Agnes B., Tom Ford, Katy Barker, and has been published in The Miami Herald, Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Village Voice, Tokion, Rolling Stone, Another Magazine, Dazed & Confused, The Fader, Relax magazine in Japan and Refill magazine in Australia. The work. My work is inspired by the anonymous art found in the streets. The art is often in the form of calligraphy or the actions of torn and stripped posters. The inscriptions in my work are used as a form of drawing, and to maintain a record of my observations. In my travels I have encountered a similar dialogue that takes place in most cities. I find compositions on surfaces of deteriorated walls, and remnants of construction markings. In my paintings I create layers and textures representing the age of memories collected through different periods of my life. Evidence is left on walls by fleeting creators both aware of their message, and oblivious to what I may find in their signs. Still, they remain mostly unidentified. When working on my paintings I imagine different people are making choices to write, paint, or destroy the surfaces. To do this I employ techniques to age my work, adopting materials normally used in construction sites. I am using my imagination to capture the psychology of a segmented reality. These realities, which are deposited into our subconscious everyday, are the basis for a dialogue that goes mostly unnoticed. Once these "segmented realities" or images are transferred and converted into paintings they become a "memory document," a sort of time capsule for my experience in history. With this language I hope to communicate and provoke thoughts of the past and present conditions in the human spirit. The piece is an original brought at the exhibition. It is clearly marked 01/05 produced by Jose Parla aka Ease. It is dated in the other corner as being sold in 2005. Details as to that exhibition in March 2005 are below: New original works from New York artist. www.joseparla.com Opening Night Friday 4 March at 7.30pm Gallery open Wedneday to Saturday at 11.00am – 3.30pm or by appointment. Refill Space 157 Regent Street, Redfern NSW Phone: 0431 366 900 www.refillmag.com Place a Bid!