page_title: José Parlá
section_title: Large scale murals
hierarchical_section_title: José Parlá / Large scale murals
caption_attribution_description: English: Barclay's Center Mural
context_page_description: José Parlá, is a Brooklyn-based contemporary artist whose work has been described as "lying between the boundary of abstraction and calligraphy."
  Parlá is publicly known for his permanent installations of large-scale paintings. In 2013 he painted the mural Nature of Language at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library at North Carolina State University, the mural Diary of Brooklyn at the Barclays Center, and a 90-foot mural ONE: Union of the Senses in the lobby of One World Trade Center. In 2017, Parlá was commissioned by Landmarks, the public art collection of The University of Texas at Austin, to paint a mural titled Amistad América in Robert B. Rowling Hall in the McCombs School of Business; the painting was unveiled in 2018.
  Parlá constructs his paintings improvisationally by layering materials, saying "I’m really interested in the way our lives are built up out of memory and history, and how we reflect that in our surroundings."
  Parlá has exhibited worldwide and collaborated with artists from various countries.
context_section_description: Parla's first large-scale mural was for a Toronto housing development called City Place in 2009.
  In 2012 he painted a 70-foot long lobby mural titled Diary of Brooklyn for the Barclays Center, and a lobby painting for the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Fisher Theater. Parla worked on the two painting simultaneously, going back and forth between the two nearby buildings and working late.
  The next year he painted the mural The Nature of Language for the newly constructed James B. Hunt Jr. Library at the North Carolina State University.
  In 2014 Parlá painted ONE: Union of the Senses which is displayed in the lobby of One World Trade Center. The painting measures 15 ft by 90 ft, and is thought to be the largest painting in New York City.
  In 2017, Parlá was commissioned by Landmarks, the public art collection of The University of Texas at Austin, to paint a mural titled Amistad América in Robert B. Rowling Hall in the McCombs School of Business. Unveiled the following year, the work measures a massive 16 ft by 125 ft.
caption: Parlá painting Diary of Brooklyn at Barclay's Center in Brooklyn
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