NADA New York 2022

Five figures returns Unrau’s focus to art history and significant painters from the past. The piece is a direct tribute to the late Bay-area painter David Park. Unrau references different figures from across Park’s body of work, merging them into a new composition and adding elements of his own in the process. In Unrau’s composition, layers of paint are built up through short staccato-like brush strokes. The figures twist and turn around what appears to be some sort of moonlight gathering. Like many of Unrau’s works however, there is a level of ambiguity to the painting, leaving it up to us, the viewer, to fill in the missing story.