Master of Abstraction

José Parlá likes to wander around unfamiliar cities at 3 or 4am and take photos. “At that hour you see things that you know people in bed won’t be seeing,” he tells me. “It’s not necessarily about what’s trendy in the street scene, but just what is happening in the world outside.” Fans of Parlá’s work know that the Brooklyn-based artist is constantly reinterpreting the urban landscape with all its noise, energy, movement, and r