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The Boston Globe
October 5, 2000
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ADDISON PARKS,"Last Dance For You", 2000. Oil on canvas, 60 "x 36"

 

Parks's Q&A
By Cate McQuaid

...Parks revels in Paint. In these works he sets wild dancing sluiceways of color in his background, then contains them with thick juicy horizontal bars across the foreground. You'd think that this would feel like some kind of imprisonment, but it doesn't. The color in the background, as in "Two-headed Brother," feels confused, like the mind chewing on a question. The slippery blue bars that run across it feel like the answer--and the answer is better than the question ever imagined.

The contrast between question and answer is the pulse that propels Parks's work. The most recent piece in the show, "Women in Sports," has the great loops of gray that fill the background begin to infringe on the yellow, green, and orange bars that try to contain them. The question asserts itself again--active, probing, wrestling with what had been the triumphant answer. It makes perfect sense, of course. Answers, no matter how clear and bold and luscious, never stand. The power is always in the question.

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