3130 Wilshire blvd #104 Los Angeles CA 90010
Saturday, August 2 at 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Ends Aug 30, 2025
Shatto Gallery is elated to announce Anthology of Light, a solo exhibition by the internationally acclaimed photographer Sue Park. Spanning nearly three decades of work, Anthology of Light chronicles Sue Park’s continuous exploration of light and its formal and emotive effects across different genres and subject matters. The primacy of light in Park’s works underscores the artist’s central preoccupation with its ephemeral qualities and its capacity to evoke the brief moment of serenity in the pause between breaths.
Anthology of Light presents a selection of works from different series in Sue Park’s long career, highlighting the diversity of approaches and techniques with which she interrogates the transformative potential of light. The works in the “Inverted” series, for example, are experiments in tonal range. By producing negatives of black and white photographs of flora on textured rice paper, Park creates images that closely resemble classical ink-wash paintings from East Asia. In contrast, in the series of photographs taken in Palouse, Washington, Park departs from her usual reserved use of color and embraces a maximalist palette in order to overwhelm the viewer with the vibrancy of the region’s landscape. Rolling green hills are rendered with highly saturated hues within a subtly flattened plane of focus, creating striking works that press on the edge of representation.
Beyond form, Anthology of Light is an evocation of life itself. Whether it’s a murmuration of starlings spilling across the sky in undulating parabolas or a solitary grove of ancient trees in light fog, there resides a quiet equilibrium in all of Park’s work; this stillness is not one of inanimate inertia, but that of a life at rest, like the gentle pause following an exhalation.