img_above: Sam Watkins Park, Daytona USA, 48x48 in. Oil on canvas.
cool wip episode 9:
coolin with sam watkins park
Damn son where’d you find this? We’re ready to get ratchet with artist and designer Sam Watkins Park!
Sam Watkins Park, Ratchet (close up), 2019, 48x48, oil on canvas
Double threat designer and artist Sam Watkins Park delivers a helluvan episode. We’re talkin Tommy Wright III, Direct Drive, the uncanny valley, Three 3 Mafia, Sargent, Korean Mask making, and Watkins ability to incorporate his personal experiences of being othered (while satirizing and rejecting those classifications) in his grand, hyperbolic, hypersaturated, paintings.
Check him out @srwatkins777 on the gram and artistsamwatkins.com and designsamwatkins.com
Sam Watkins Park, Nihilism as Optimism, 2019, oil on canvas.
Also, apply for the ASAP Fund COVID-19 grant here. https://pulitzerarts.org/program/asap-fund-covid-19-grants/
WHERE ARE ALL THE YOUNG THUGS OF THE GALLERY?
Check out our interview with Sam Watkins Park!