Almost immediately after the departure of Still from CSFA, Bischoff and Smith, along with Richard Diebenkorn, pushed Park to take his commitment to the figurative expressionist movement in a more definitive manner.
Park’s work in particular explored the human body and its relationship with its surroundings, which he investigated through portraits, crowds, and people conversing with one another.
“I have found that in accepting and immersing myself in subject matter I paint with more intensity and that the ‘hows’ of painting are more inevitably determined by the ‘whats’”
-David Park