David Eddington and Da Aie Park — The Calm Tempest’s Quest: A Contemplation of Being
January 24 – February 14, 2026
Shatto Gallery
3130 Wilshire Blvd #104, LOS ANGELES, CA 90010
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 24, 2026 | 2-5 PM
Shatto Gallery is delighted to announce The Calm Tempest’s Quest: A Contemplation of Being, a two person exhibition featuring new works by two Los Angeles based painters David Eddington and Da Aie Park. This exhibition emerges from the meeting of two artists whose practices, though arising from disparate traditions, share a sustained inquiry in perception, material and being. The Calm Tempest’s Quest is a dialogue that resists resolution; eschewing the tidy merging of differences into unity, this collaboration instead holds difference as a generative tension—between gesture and structure, between transience and form.
Da Aie Park is a Korean American painter whose soft, lyrical abstractions explore movement across unbounded expanses of fluid, diaphanous color. Painted upon freely suspended hanji paper, Park’s works inhabit a space between presence and disappearance. Her restrained palette and atmospheric works draw on the meditative aesthetics of East Asian traditions, while retaining a distinctly contemporary sensibility: the color field as breath, a bird messenger, image as a moment of arrival.
David Eddington is an English-American artist whose practice, conversely, stems from the Western pictorial tradition. His romantic pragmatism fuses an architectural attention to form with an awareness of the instability of light and mood. The Renaissance influence is evident in his compositional discipline, yet his Neo-expressionistic approach resists nostalgia. What results is a painterly reflection on the condition of humankind itself — how matter, atmosphere, and emotion converge to shape the world.
The exhibition’s title, The Calm Tempest’s Quest, names a shared paradox at the centre of their exchange: serenity and disturbance as coexistent states. Their works together articulate a phenomenological question — how being discloses itself through flux, and how art can trace that disclosure without attempting to fix it. The paintings invite contemplation not as escape, but as a mode of attentiveness to the instability of our times, of existence itself.
Through their dialogue, Park and Eddington offer a space where cultural and aesthetic boundaries are neither denied nor reconciled, but instead become sites of reflection. The calm, the tempest, and the quest all unfold simultaneously — as processes of seeing, remembering, and becoming.
Shatto Gallery
3130 Wilshire Blvd #104, LOS ANGELES, CA 90010
Hours: Wednesday – Saturday 11 AM – 5 PM
Inquiries: shattogallery@gmail.com
