In Search of Ice
Recent Paintings from Travels in the ArcticBlue Mountain Gallery , February 26-March 22, 2008
Ice, Iceberg, Baffin Bay, right, was painted last spring in
Upernavik. “The large iceberg in the
distance was there when I arrived,” said Clark, “and
seemed as permanent and solid as a mountain until it
suddenly disappeared a couple of weeks later.”
Another image that remained vivid from her travels was
an ice tower which a French visitor referred to as “Notre
Dame.” It sat at the entrance to the Jacobshaven Fiord
for over a month until it sailed off and was seen in the
distance a few hours later, disappearing behind a spit
of land.“For Clark, a world without terrafirma has led her to seek a new language evoking mutable form and shifting spaces.” —Wendy Gittler
Clark has exhibited at venues that include the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Museum of the City of New York, Albany Institute of History and Art, Babcock Galleries and the University of Rhode Island. She has been a recipient of the Childe Hassam Award, a National Endowment of the Arts Artist in Residence grant and has written for Smithsonian Magazine, retracing travels of Thomas Cole, first of the Hudson River School painters. She was guest curator for an exhibition of contemporary panoramas at the Hudson River Museum and is currently artist/director of Blue Mountain Gallery. Clark has a BFA degree in painting from Yale University and a MFA degree from SUNY New Paltz. She teaches drawing at Parsons School of Design.
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