José Parlá on Coming Back to Life Through Art

The Miami-born, Brooklyn-based artist José Parlá talks about his near-death experience with Covid-19; his ongoing activism with the collective Wide Awakes; and how his large-scale murals at locations including the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Barclays Center, and One World Trade Center trace back to his early days, in the late ’80s and early ’90s, of painting elaborate wall works with aerosol in Miami and Atlanta.