EMILY CLARK STUDIO
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“My work begins with shapes derived from nature: bones, bugs, birds, tuberous roots, crustaceans. Through intensive drawing from nature I cultivate and rearrange these organic shapes to create new structures. These invented building blocks, derived from the organic world, are combined in my sculpture to create a personal language of form.
This vocabulary runs throughout my entire body of work, despite the diversity of many of my images. From larger figures that exhibit elaborate and abstracted drapery, to sculptured fossil fragments, this lexicon of invented biomorphic forms remains fundamental”.
A longtime downtown New York City artist, Emily Clark has entwined the power of art into her life both as an artist and founder of of Design East, a storefront gallery 1983-1992. Emily Clark is the founder and Executive Director of the non-profit Works in Progress NYC, a community design and print shop located on, and part of the community of Fourth Arts Block (FABNYC).
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Curriculum Vitae
www.emilyclarkstudio.com
📧 emilyclarkstudio@gmail.com | 📞 347-268-9491
📷 @emilyclarkstudio
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Solo Exhibtions
2023 — Studio One, East Village, New York, NY
1999 — La MaMa La Galleria, East Village, New York, NY
1995 — Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
1995 — Atlantic Gallery, SoHo, New York, NY
1994 — Atlantic Gallery, SoHo, New York, NY
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Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 — RE Institute: Family Eye, New York, NY
2024 — Idiosyncratic Eclecticism, Garnerville Arts Center, NY — curated by Brett DePalma
2023 — Group Exhibition, Garnerville Arts Center, NY
2004 — Chesterwood Museum & Sculpture Garden, Stockbridge, MA — with catalogue
2002 — Small Works Show, NYU Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY — Honorable Mention
1996 — Atlantic Gallery, SoHo, New York, NY
1993 — Atlantic Gallery, SoHo, New York, NY
1990 — COUNDO NY Community Center, New York, NY
1985, 1987, 1990 — Design East Storefront Gallery, East Village, New York, NY
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Education
1982–1984 — The Art Students League of New York — Figure Drawing & Painting
1980–1982 — NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Apprenticeship — with sculptor Susan Smyly
1981 — BFA, SUNY Purchase
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Press & Publications
Visual Radio CD Magazine
New Common Good — Feature Article
East Village Eye — on Design East
Village Voice — coverage on Design East (1984, 1987)