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# The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Presents David Park: A Retrospective, on View Through March 15
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/kalamazoo-institute-of-arts-david-park-retrospective/
- Published: 2020-02-19T19:06:40.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:52:34.000Z
- Description: Join the KIA on March 12 for an evening talk with Helen Park Bigelow and return March 13 for David Park and the Bay Area Figurative Movement: A Symposium at the KIA.
- Author: Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
- Tags: Announcement, Exhibition Announcement, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:41 (2019, 2020, part 2)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2020/02/david-park-17--crowd-of-seven.jpg)

David Park, “Crowd of Seven” (1960), private collection, ©Estate of David Park, (courtesy Natalie Park Schutz, Helen Park Bigelow, and Hackett Mill, San Francisco)

Organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, [*David Park: A Retrospective*](http://bit.ly/2SpHeEO?ref=hyperallergic.com) offers the opportunity to explore 30 years of the American artist’s evolving techniques, on view at the [Kalamazoo Institute of Arts](http://bit.ly/3bCc4Sb?ref=hyperallergic.com) (KIA) through March 15\. During the final week of the show, the KIA will host a guest talk by the artist’s daughter as well as an emerging scholarship symposium the following day.

Park had a lasting impact on American art and artists, in part due to his surprising mid-century pivot back to figurative work in a time when abstract art was the trend.

On Thursday, March 12, Helen Park Bigelow, David Park’s daughter and author of *David Park, Painter: Nothing Held Back*, will present an [evening talk](http://bit.ly/2OTsOdS?ref=hyperallergic.com) at the KIA.

On Friday, March 13, scholars, collectors, and artists will gather for a [symposium](http://bit.ly/2UTJFku?ref=hyperallergic.com) about the impact of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Guests will enjoy keynotes from exhibition curator [Janet Bishop](http://bit.ly/2SXjKWL?ref=hyperallergic.com), Thomas Weisel Family Chief Curator and Curator of Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art*;* and from artist Francis Mill, artist and co-owner of the [Hackett Mill](http://bit.ly/38ukRn7?ref=hyperallergic.com) gallery in San Francisco, the exclusive representative of the Estate of David Park.

Additional presenters of new scholarship will include writer and professor [John Seed](http://bit.ly/2SJHi0Z?ref=hyperallergic.com), author of *Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World;* Boston-based painter [Kaitlin Thurlow](http://bit.ly/2Hnkwqn?ref=hyperallergic.com); curator and art historian [Matthew Weseley](http://bit.ly/2HqCDMm?ref=hyperallergic.com); and [Marc Dombrosky](http://bit.ly/39yJj6X?ref=hyperallergic.com), chair of the Visual and Performing Arts Department of Southwestern Michigan College.

**To register for the** [**symposium**](http://bit.ly/2UTJFku?ref=hyperallergic.com) **or for more information on *David Park: A Retrospective*, visit** [**kiarts.org**](http://bit.ly/2SpHeEO?ref=hyperallergic.com)**.**

David Park: A Retrospective *continues* *at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (314 S Park Street, Kalamazoo, MI) through March 15\. The exhibition is curated by Janet Bishop, Thomas Weisel Family Chief Curator and Curator of Painting and Sculpture at SFMOMA.*